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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.

Jorge Luis Borges

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The mind was dreaming. The world was its dream.
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To be immortal is commonplace; except for man, all creatures are immortal, for they are ignorant of death; what is divine, terrible, incomprehensible, is to know that one is immortal.
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How can we manage to illuminate the pathos of our lives?
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A poet is a discoverer rather than an inventor.
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We accept reality so readily – perhaps because we sense that nothing is real.
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Acceptance Reality Thinking
Time is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire.
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From my weakness, I drew strength that never left me.
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A writer’s work is the product of laziness.
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A writer should have another lifetime to see if he’s appreciated.
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Reality may avoid the obligation to be interesting, but hypotheses may not.
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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
To arrange a library is to practice in a quiet and modest way the art of criticism.
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Arrangement Criticism Practice Quiet
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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Time is the substance from which I am made. Time is a river which carries me along, but I am the river; it is a tiger that devours me, but I am the tiger; it is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire.
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The flattery of posterity is not worth much more than contemporary flattery, which is worth nothing.
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In general, every country has the language it deserves.
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Country Deserve Language

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