"I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library."
-Jorge Luis Borges
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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.“
-Jorge Luis Borges
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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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"To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god."
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"Democracy is an abuse of statistics."
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"Poetry remembers that it was an oral art before it was a written art."
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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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