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Jorge Luis Borges

Jorge Luis Borges

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The verb to read, like the verb to love and the verb to dream, does not support 'the imperative mood'.

Jorge Luis Borges

Jorge Luis Borges

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Any destiny, however long and complicated it may be, actually consists of a single moment: the moment when a person forever knows who they are.

Jorge Luis Borges

Jorge Luis Borges

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Always is a word that is not allowed for men.

Jorge Luis Borges

Jorge Luis Borges

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Thank you for the music, mysterious form of time.

Jorge Luis Borges

Jorge Luis Borges

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We all walk towards anonymity, it's just that the mediocre arrive a little earlier.

Jorge Luis Borges

Jorge Luis Borges

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Of the various instruments invented by man, the most astonishing is the book; all others are extensions of his body... Only the book is an extension of the imagination and memory.

Cesare Borgia

Cesare Borgia

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What hasn't happened at noon may happen in the evening.

Ludwig Börne

Ludwig Börne

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The most dangerous man is the one who is afraid.

Ludwig Börne

Ludwig Börne

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Governments are sails; the people, the wind; the State, the ship; and time, the sea.

Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet

Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet

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The politics is an act of balance between the people who want to enter and those who do not want to leave.

Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet

Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet

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When God erases, it means he's about to write something.

Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet

Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet

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In Egypt, the libraries were called the treasure of remedies for the soul. Indeed, in them one was cured of ignorance, the most dangerous of diseases and the origin of all others.