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I believe books will never disappear. It is impossible for it to happen. Of all man’s diverse tools, undoubtedly the most astounding are his books… If books were to disappear, history would disappear. So would man.

Jorge Luis Borges

Happy are the beloved and the lovers and those who can live without love.
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Happiness Live Love Lover
Only in the present do things happen.
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Inspirational Moments Present
A system is nothing more than the subordination of all aspects of the universe to any one of such aspects.
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Aspect System Universe
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
The heresies we should fear are those which can be confused with orthodoxy.
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Confusion Orthodox
We forget that we are all dead men conversing with dead men.
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Conversation Death Forget Man
In our dreams (writes Coleridge) images represent the sensations we think they cause; we do not feel horror because we are threatened by a sphinx; we dream of a sphinx in order to explain the horror we feel.
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Dreams Feeling Horror Sensation
Every man should be capable of all ideas.
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Capable Ideas Man
Personally, I am a hedonistic reader; I have never read a book merely because it was ancient. I read books for the aesthetic emotions they offer me, and I ignore the commentaries and criticism.
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Aesthetic Criticism Personal Reading
Democracy is an abuse of statistics.
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Abuse Democracy Statistics
When you reach my age, you realize you couldn’t have done things very much better or much worse than you did them in the first place.
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Age Better Place Reach Worst Yourself
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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Books Existence Fools Ideas Summary Writing
My books standing there on the shelf do not know that I have written them.
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Book Known Stand Writing
The things that are said in literature are always the same. What is important is the way they are said.
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Expression Important Literature
I had always thought of Paradise / In form and image as a library.
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Form Heaven Library Myself Paradise Thinking
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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Known Reason Simplicity Universe

I believe books will never disappear. It is impossible for it to happen. Of all man’s diverse tools, undoubtedly the most astounding are his books… If books were to disappear, history would disappear. So would man.

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I believe books will never disappear. It is impossible for it to happen. Of all man’s diverse tools, undoubtedly the most astounding are his books… If books were to disappear, history would disappear. So would man.

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