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• I had always imagined paradise as a kind of library.

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• Let others pride themselves about how many pages they have written; I’d rather boast about the ones I’ve read.

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• Canada is so far away it hardly exists.

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• While we are asleep in this world, we are awake in another one; in this way, every man is two men.

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• We have lavished the ocean on you in vain, In vain the sun that was seen by Whitman’s astounded eyes; You have spent your years and you have spent yourself, But you haven’t written the poem yet.

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• It may be that universal history is the history of the different intonations given a handful of metaphors.

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• The meta physicians of Tlon do not seek for the truth or even for verisimilitude, but rather for the astounding. They judge that metaphysics is a branch of fantastic literature.

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• When writers die they become books, which is, after all, not too bad an incarnation.

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• I will not be happy, but that doesn’t matter, there are many other things in this world.

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• Many of the characters are fools and they’re always playing tricks on me and treating me badly.

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• Being with you and not being with you is the only way I have to measure time.

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• If i could live my life again, in the next, I’ll try to make more mistakes. I won’t try to be so perfect.

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• I cannot sleep unless I am surrounded by books.

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• Writing is nothing more than a guided dream.

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• To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.

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• To die for a religion is easier than to live it absolutely.

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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.

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Birth:	24th August, 1899
Death:	14th June, 1986
Nationality:	Argentinean
Profession:	Essayist, Poet, Translator, Writer

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