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Jorge Luis Borges

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
There is no point in being overwhelmed by the appalling total of human sufferring; such a total does not exist. Neither poverty nor pain is accumulable.
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Human Pain Point Suffering
Then I reflect that all things happen, happen to one, precisely now. Century follows century, and things happen only in the present. There are countless men in the air, on land and at sea, and all that really happens happens to me.
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Existence Man Present Reflection Time Yourself
May Heaven exist, even if my place is Hell.
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Existence Heaven Hell Place
One concept corrupts and confuses the others. I am not speaking of the Evil whose limited sphere is ethics; I am speaking of the infinite.
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Confusion Corruption Infinite Limitation
I saw a sunset in Queretaro that seemed to reflect the color of a rose in Bengal.
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Color Reflection Rose
The flattery of posterity is not worth much more than contemporary flattery, which is worth nothing.
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Flattery Poster Worth
What a writer wants to do is not what he does.
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Himself Writing
I can give you my loneliness, my darkness, the hunger of my heart, I am trying to bribe you with uncertainty, with danger, with defeat.
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Dangerous Darkness Defeat Heart Hungry Lonely Myself
The future is as irrevocable as an inflexible yesterday.
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Future Past
There is an hour of the afternoon when the plain is on the verge of saying something. It never says, or perhaps it says it infinitely, or perhaps we do not understand it, or we understand it and it is untranslatable as music.
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Music Time Translation Understand
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
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
I cannot walk through the suburbs in the solitude of the night without thinking that the night pleases us because it suppresses idle details, just as our memory does.
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Detail Memories Myself Night Solitude Thinking Walk
I never reread what I’ve written. I’m far too afraid to feel ashamed of what I’ve done.
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Afraid Feeling Myself Reading Shame Writing
The sea is an idiom I cannot decipher.
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Literature Metaphor Myself Sea

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