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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 flattery of posterity is not worth much more than contemporary flattery, which is worth nothing.
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Flattery Poster Worth
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
I ask of any God, of any gods, that if they give immortality, I hope to be granted oblivion also.
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Desire God Immortal Myself
What a writer wants to do is not what he does.
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Himself Writing
The original is unfaithful to the translation.
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Faith Original Translation
He thought that the rose was to be found in its own eternity and not in his words; and that we may mention or allude to a thing, but not express it.
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Expression Finding Mention Rose Word
In Spanish it is very difficult to make things flow, because words are over-long. But in English, you have light words.
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Difficult Light Spanish Word Yourself
Blindness has not been for me a total misfortune; it should not be seen in a pathetic way. It should be seen as a way of life: one of the styles of living.
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Blindness Life Misfortune Oneself See Style Way
I do not write for a select minority, which means nothing to me, nor for that adulated platonic entity known as ‘The Masses’. Both abstractions, so dear to the demagogue, I disbelieve in. I write for myself and for my friends, and I write to ease the passing of time.
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Ease Friendship Minority Myself Time Writing
No one is anyone, one single immortal man is all men. Like Cornelius Agrippa, I am god, I am hero, I am philosopher, I am demon and I am world, which is a tedious way of saying that I do not exist.
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Existence Identity Immortal Man Myself Personality Philosophy
Reality may avoid the obligation to be interesting, but hypotheses may not.
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Avoid Interest Obligation Reality
To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.
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Creation Fall Fall In Love God Religion
I have preferred to teach my students not English literature but my love for certain authors, or, even better, certain pages, or even better than that, certain lines. One falls in love with a line, then with a page, then with an author. Well, why not? It is a beautiful process.
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Beautiful Better Fall In Love Literature Preference Student Teaching
A book is not an isolated being: it is a relationship, an axis of innumerable relationships
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Book Perspective Relationship
I have always come to life after coming to books.
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Book Feeling Life Myself
The word happiness exists in every language; it is plausible the thing itself exists.
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Existence Happiness Word

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