It also occurred to him that throughout history, humankind has told two stories: the story of a lost ship sailing the Mediterranean seas in quest of a beloved isle, and the story of a god who allows himself to be crucified on Golgotha.
JORGE LUIS BORGESI am almost sure to be blotted out by death, but sometimes I think it is not impossible that I may continue to live in some other manner after my physical death . Or, as Hamlet wonders, what dreams will come when we leave this body?
More Jorge Luis Borges Quotes
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It is clear that there is no classification of the Universe that is not arbitrary and full of conjectures. The reason for this is very simple: we do not know what kind of thing the universe is.
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Writing is nothing more than a guided dream.
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Life itself is a quotation.
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Democracy is an abuse of statistics.
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I have always come to life after coming to books.
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When I wake up, I wake to something worse. It’s the astonishment of being myself.
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Art is very mysterious. I wonder if you can really do any damage to art. I think that when we’re writing, something comes through or should come through, in spite of our theories. So theories are not really important.
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I saw a sunset in Queretaro that seemed to reflect the color of a rose in Bengal.
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I had always thought of Paradise / In form and image as a library.
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I have sometimes suspected that the only thing that holds no mystery is happiness, because it is its own justification.
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The Falklands thing was a fight between two bald men over a comb.
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Reality is not always probable, or likely.
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The word happiness exists in every language; it is plausible the thing itself exists.
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Soccer is popular because stupidity is popular.
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In all fiction, when a man is faced with alternatives he chooses one at the expense of others.
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