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"I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library."
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"Perhaps there is only one cardinal sin: impatience. Because of impatience we were driven out of Paradise, because of impatience we cannot return."
"No one shall expel us from the paradise that Cantor has created for us."
"I went to the Paradise Restaurant on 49th Street and Broadway which was where they were playing, and I sat in."
"The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp."
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"All our lives we postpone everything that can be postponed; perhaps we all have the certainty, deep inside, that we are immortal and sooner or later every man will do everything, know all there is to know."
"Reading . . . is an activity subsequent to writing: more resigned, more civil, more intellectual."
"Many of the characters are fools and they're always playing tricks on meand treating me badly."
"One of the schools in Tlön has reached the point of denying time. It reasons that the present is undefined, that the future has no other reality than as present hope, that the past is no more than present memory."
"The flattery of posterity is not worth much more than contemporary flattery, which is worth nothing."
"There is an hour of the afternoon when the plain is on the verge of saying something. It never says, or perhaps it says it infinitely, or perhaps we do not understand it, or we understand it and it is untranslatable as music."
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