"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."
-Jorge Luis Borges
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"Poetry remembers that it was an oral art before it was a written art.“
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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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"To die for a religion is easier than to live it absolutely."
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"To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god."
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"Any life is made up of a single moment, the moment in which a man finds out, once and for all, who he is."
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"I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library."
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