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"Paradise will be a kind of library."
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"I went to the Paradise Restaurant on 49th Street and Broadway which was where they were playing, and I sat in."
"In a republic, that paradise of debility, the politician is a petty tyrant who obeys the laws."
"Perhaps there is only one cardinal sin: impatience. Because of impatience we were driven out of Paradise, because of impatience we cannot return."
"Utility is when you have one telephone, luxury is when you have two, opulence is when you have three - and paradise is when you have none."
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"The metaphysicians of Tlön are not looking for truth, nor even for an approximation of it; they are after a kind of amazement."
"Sometimes, looking at the many books I have at home, I feel I shall die before I come to the end of them, yet I cannot resist the temptation of buying new books. Whenever I walk into a bookstore and find a book on one of my hobbies - for example, Old English or Old Norse poetry - I say to myself, "What a pity I can't buy that book, for I already have a copy at home."
"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 Library is a sphere whose exact centre is any one of its hexagons and whose circumference is inaccessible."
"I foresee that man will resign himself each day to new abominations, and soon that only bandits and soldiers will be left."
"There is a line in Verlaine I shall not recall again,There is a street close by forbidden to my feet,There's a mirror that's seen me for the very last time,There is a door that I have locked till the end of the world.Among the books in my library (I have them before me)There are some that I shall never open now.This summer I complete my fiftieth year;Death is gnawing at me ceaselessly."
"We have a very precise image - an image at times shameless - of what we have lost, but we are ignorant of what may follow or replace it."
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