Reading is an activity subsequent to writing: more resigned, more civil, more intellectual.
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The flattery of posterity is not worth much more than contemporary flattery, which is worth nothing.Jorge Luis Borges
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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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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The original is unfaithful to the translation.
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Santa Claus has the right idea. Visit people once a year.
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