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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

I think most people are more important than their opinions.
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Important Opinion People Thinking
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 means much to have loved, to have been happy, to have laid my hand on the living Garden, even for a day.
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Day Garden Hands Live Love
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
All that happens to us, including our humiliations, our misfortunes, our embarrassments, all is given to us as raw material, as clay, so that we may shape our art.
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Art Embarrassment Fortune Improvement Ourselves
We have a very precise image – an image at times shameless – of what we have lost, but we are ignorant of what may follow or replace it.
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Image Lost Replacement Shame Time
I had always thought of Paradise / In form and image as a library.
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Form Heaven Library Myself Paradise Thinking
When I write, I do it urged by an intimate necessity. I don’t have in mind an exclusive public, or a public of multitudes, I don’t think in either thing. I think about expressing what I want to say. I try to do it in the simplest way possible.
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Expression Intimate Myself Necessary Possible Simplicity Writing
Being with you and not being with you is the only way I have to measure time.
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Love Measurement Myself Relationship Time Yourself
Whoever would undertake some atrocious enterprise should act as if it were already accomplished should impose upon himself a future as irrevocable as the past.
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Accomplishment Future Past
We have stopped believing in progress. What progress that is !
JORGE LUIS BORGES

Believe Progress Stop
In adultery, there is usually tenderness and self-sacrifice; in murder, courage; in profanation and blasphemy, a certain satanic splendour. Judas elected those offences unvisited by any virtues: abuse of confidence and informing.
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Adultery Inform Sacrifice Tenderness University
In general, every country has the language it deserves.
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Country Deserve Language
The visible universe was an illusion or, more precisely, a sophism. Mirrors and fatherhood are abominable because they multiply it and extend it.
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Father Mirror Universe Visible
A book is not an isolated being: it is a relationship, an axis of innumerable relationships
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Book Perspective Relationship
Truth never penetrates an unwilling mind.
JORGE LUIS BORGES

Mindset Truth Willing

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