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If I were asked to name the chief event in my life, I should say my father’s library.

Jorge Luis Borges

Reality is partial to symmetry and slight anachronisms
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Partial Reality Symmetry
When you come right down to it, opinions are the most superficial things about anyone.
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Opinion Right Yourself
Reality may avoid the obligation to be interesting, but hypotheses may not.
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Avoid Interest Obligation Reality
The dictionary is based on the hypothesis — obviously an unproven one — that languages are made up of equivalent synonyms.
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Dictionary Language Symptoms
We forget that we are all dead men conversing with dead men.
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Conversation Death Forget Man
Doubt is one of the names of intelligence.
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Doubt Inspirational Intelligence Name
Time is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire.
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Consume Fire Myself Time
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
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 earth we inhabit is an error, an incompetent parody. Mirrors and paternity are abominable because they multiply and affirm it.
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Affirmation Earth Errors Mistake
Being with you and not being with you is the only way I have to measure time.
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Love Measurement Myself Relationship Time Yourself
If space is infinite, we may be at any point in space. If time is infinite, we may be at any point in time.
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Infinite Point Space Time
Every man should be capable of all ideas.
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Capable Ideas Man
Perhaps the apparent favor of the universe is no more than the crocodile grin of a Doberman breathing hard and about to be hungry?
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Breathe Hungry Universe
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
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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