I think most people are more important than their opinions.
JORGE LUIS BORGESTime can’t be measured in days the way money is measured in pesos and centavos, because all pesos are equal, while every day, perhaps every hour, is different.
More Jorge Luis Borges Quotes
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To die for a religion is easier than to live it absolutely.
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Time is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire.
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Loneliness does not worry me; life is difficult enough, putting up with yourself and with your own habits.
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What a writer wants to do is not what he does.
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The future is as irrevocable as an inflexible yesterday.
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To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.
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The dictionary is based on the hypothesis — obviously an unproven one — that languages are made up of equivalent synonyms.
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When you reach my age, you realize you couldn’t have done things very much better or much worse than you did them in the first place.
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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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The original is unfaithful to the translation.
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Every man should be capable of all ideas.
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Death is just infinity closing in.
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If I were asked to name the chief event in my life, I should say my father’s library.
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I have committed the worst of sins one can commit. I have not been happy.
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You have wakened not out of sleep, but into a prior dream, and that dream lies within another, and so on, to infinity, which is the number of grains of sand. The path that you are to take is endless, and you will die before you have truly awakened.
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