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Yo no bebo, no fumo, no escucho la radio, no me drogo, como poco. Yo diría que mis únicos vicios son El Quijote, La divina comedia y no incurrir en la lectura de Enrique Larreta ni de Benavente

Jorge Luis Borges

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I think we should invent a game where nobody wins.

Fun
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The Library is a sphere whose precise center is any hexagon, whose circumference is inaccessible.

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I have always felt that there is something about Buenos Aires that I like. I like it so much that I don't like it when other people like it. It's a jealous kind of love.

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They say I am a great writer. I appreciate that curious opinion, but I do not share it. Tomorrow, some bright individuals will easily refute it and label me as an impostor or a hack, or both at once.

Art
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Hell and paradise seem disproportionate to me. The actions of men do not deserve so much.

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Literature is nothing more than a directed dream.

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May heaven exist, even if our place is hell.

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The theme of envy is very Spanish. Spaniards are always thinking about envy. To say that something is good, they say: 'It's enviable'.

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Democracy: it is a widely held superstition, an abuse of statistics.

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The happiness does not need to be transmuted into beauty, but the misfortune does.

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I believe it's better to think that God does not accept bribes.