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Heaven and hell seem out of proportion to me: the actions of men do not deserve so much.

Jorge Luis Borges

The things that are said in literature are always the same. What is important is the way they are said.
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Expression Important Literature
The central fact of my life has been the existence of words and the possibility of weaving those words into poetry.
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Existence Fact Poetry Possible Word
Death is just infinity closing in.
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Close Death Infinite
If I were asked to name the chief event in my life, I should say my father’s library.
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Father Library Life Name
Art is very mysterious. I wonder if you can really do any damage to art. I think that when we’re writing, something comes through or should come through, in spite of our theories. So theories are not really important.
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Art Damage Important Mystery Theory Writing Yourself
The possibilities of the art of combination are not infinite, but they tend to be frightful.
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Art Combination Infinite Possible
To arrange a library is to practice in a quiet and modest way the art of criticism.
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Arrangement Criticism Practice Quiet
It’s a shame that we have to choose between two such second-rate countries as the USSR and the USA.
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Choice Country Shame
If space is infinite, we may be at any point in space. If time is infinite, we may be at any point in time.
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Infinite Point Space Time
To be immortal is commonplace; except for man, all creatures are immortal, for they are ignorant of death; what is divine, terrible, incomprehensible, is to know that one is immortal.
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Creature Divine Ignorance Immortal Man Myself Terrible
I am almost sure to be blotted out by death, but sometimes I think it is not impossible that I may continue to live in some other manner after my physical death . Or, as Hamlet wonders, what dreams will come when we leave this body?
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Body Death Impossible Leave Live Myself Thinking
Time is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire.
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Consume Fire Myself Time
The future has no other reality than as present hope, and the past is no more than present memory.
JORGE LUIS BORGES

Future Hope Memories Present Reality
To die for a religion is easier than to live it absolutely.
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Death Easy Live Religion
Doubt is one of the names of intelligence.
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Doubt Inspirational Intelligence Name
I never reread what I’ve written. I’m far too afraid to feel ashamed of what I’ve done.
JORGE LUIS BORGES

Afraid Feeling Myself Reading Shame Writing

Heaven and hell seem out of proportion to me: the actions of men do not deserve so much.

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