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I might accept immortality, if I had to do it. But I would prefer – if there is any afterlife – to know nothing whatever about Borges, about his experiences in this world.

Jorge Luis Borges

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A writer’s work is the product of laziness.
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A book is not an isolated being: it is a relationship, an axis of innumerable relationships
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Truth never penetrates an unwilling mind.
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So plant your own gardens and decorate your own soul, instead of waiting for someone to bring you flowers.
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When writers die they become books, which is, after all, not too bad an incarnation.
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Nothing is built on stone; all is built on sand, but we must build as if the sand were stone.
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You can’t measure time by days, the way you measure money by dollars and cents, because dollars are all the same while every day is different and maybe every hour as well.
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Happy are the beloved and the lovers and those who can live without love.
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Everything touches everything.
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When you come right down to it, opinions are the most superficial things about anyone.
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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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The minotaur more than justifies the existence of the labyrinth.
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The original is unfaithful to the translation.
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Creativity is suspended between memory and forgetting.
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Writing long books is a laborious and impoverishing act of foolishness: expanding in five hundred pages an idea that could be perfectly explained in a few minutes. A better procedure is to pretend that those books already exist and to offer a summary, a commentary.
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In my next life I will try to commit more errors.
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