I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.
JORGE LUIS BORGESI thought that a man can be an enemy of other men, of the moments of other men, but not of a country: not of fireflies, words, gardens, streams of water, sunsets.
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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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I walk slowly, like one who comes from so far away he doesn’t expect to arrive.
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Chang Tzu tells us of a persevering man who after three laborious years mastered the art of dragon-slaying. For the rest of his days, he had not a single opportunity to test his skills.
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The future is inevitable and precise, but it may not occur. God lurks in the gaps.
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In general, every country has the language it deserves.
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I saw a sunset in Queretaro that seemed to reflect the color of a rose in Bengal.
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Being with you and not being with you is the only way I have to measure time.
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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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While we are asleep in this world, we are awake in another one.
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It is clear that there is no classification of the Universe that is not arbitrary and full of conjectures. The reason for this is very simple: we do not know what kind of thing the universe is.
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Man’s memory shapes Its own Eden within.
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Time forks perpetually toward innumerable futures.
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The possibilities of the art of combination are not infinite, but they tend to be frightful.
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Israelites, Christians and Muslims profess immortality, but the veneration they render this world proves they believe only in it, since they destine all other worlds, in infinite number, to be its reward or punishment.
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Time, which despoils castles, enriches verses.
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