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Like all those possessing a library, Aurelian was aware that he was guilty of not knowing his in its entirety.
Jorge Luis Borges
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I cannot walk through the suburbs in the solitude of the night without thinking that the night pleases us because it suppresses idle details, just as our memory does.
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The fact is that all writers create their precursors. Their work modifies our conception of the past, just as it is bound to modify the future.
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Reading is an activity subsequent to writing: more resigned, more civil, more intellectual.
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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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I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.
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Nothing is built on stone; all is built on sand, but we must build as if the sand were stone.
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In general, every country has the language it deserves.
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One concept corrupts and confuses the others. I am not speaking of the Evil whose limited sphere is ethics; I am speaking of the infinite.
Jorge Luis Borges
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There is a concept that is the corrupter and destroyer of all others. I speak not of Evil, whose limited empire is that of ethics; I speak of the infinite.
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Art always opts for the individual, the concrete; art is not Platonic.
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The Falklands thing was a fight between two bald men over a comb.
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