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Beyond my anxiety, beyond this writing, the universe waits, inexhaustible, inviting.

Jorge Luis Borges

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
The mind was dreaming. The world was its dream.
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Dreams Mindset Perspective World
Soccer is popular because stupidity is popular.
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Popular Sports Stupidity
Being an agnostic means all things are possible, even God, even the Holy Trinity. This world is so strange that anything may happen, or may not happen. Being an agnostic makes me live in a larger, a more fantastic kind of world, almost uncanny. It makes me more tolerant.
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God Myself Possible Strange Tolerance World
Time is the tiger that devours me, but I am that tiger.
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Animal Time
No one is a poet from eight to twelve and from two to six. Whoever is a poet is one always, and continually assaulted by poetry.
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Age Oneself Poet Poetry
Truth never penetrates an unwilling mind.
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Mindset Truth Willing
If I were asked to name the chief event in my life, I should say my father’s library.
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Father Library Life Name
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
Blindness has not been for me a total misfortune; it should not be seen in a pathetic way. It should be seen as a way of life: one of the styles of living.
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Blindness Life Misfortune Oneself See Style Way
I 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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Country Enemy Garden Man Moments Nature Stream
The word happiness exists in every language; it is plausible the thing itself exists.
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Existence Happiness Word
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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Book Disappear Diversity History Man Myself
The sea is an idiom I cannot decipher.
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Literature Metaphor Myself Sea
I gazed at every mirror on the planet, not one gave back my reflection.
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Mirror Myself Planet Reflection
The truth is that we live out our lives putting off all that can be put off; perhaps we all know deep down that we are immortal and that sooner or later all men will do and know all things.
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Immortal Live Truth Willing

Beyond my anxiety, beyond this writing, the universe waits, inexhaustible, inviting.

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