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I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.

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Nothing is built on stone; all is built on sand, but we must build as if the sand were stone.

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Life itself is a quotation.

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I foresee that man will resign himself each day to new abominations, and soon that only bandits and soldiers will be left.

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Poetry remembers that it was an oral art before it was a written art.

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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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I cannot walk through the suburbs in the solitude of the night without thinking that the night pleases us because it suppresses idle details, just as our memory does.

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Any life is made up of a single moment, the moment in which a man finds out, once and for all, who he is.

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Life and death have been lacking in my life.

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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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Biography

Nationality: Argentinian

Type: Poet

Born: August 24th, 1899

Died: June 14th, 1986

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