In adultery, there is usually tenderness and self-sacrifice; in murder, courage; in profanation and blasphemy, a certain satanic splendour. Judas elected those offences unvisited by any virtues: abuse of confidence and informing.
JORGE LUIS BORGESThe dictionary is based on the hypothesis — obviously an unproven one — that languages are made up of equivalent synonyms.
More Jorge Luis Borges Quotes
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Time 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.
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Censorship is the mother of metaphor.
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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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Poets, like the blind, can see in the dark.
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It means much to have loved, to have been happy, to have laid my hand on the living Garden, even for a day.
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One concept corrupts and confuses the others. I am not speaking of the Evil whose limited sphere is ethics; I am speaking of the infinite.
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Heaven and hell seem out of proportion to me: the actions of men do not deserve so much.
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The things that are said in literature are always the same. What is important is the way they are said.
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May Heaven exist, even if my place is Hell.
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A writer – and, I believe, generally all persons – must think that whatever happens to him or her is a resource.
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A writer’s work is the product of laziness.
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Everything touches everything.
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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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What you really value is what you miss, not what you have.
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The sea is an idiom I cannot decipher.
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Perhaps the apparent favor of the universe is no more than the crocodile grin of a Doberman breathing hard and about to be hungry?
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The minotaur more than justifies the existence of the labyrinth.
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My books standing there on the shelf do not know that I have written them.
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While we are asleep in this world, we are awake in another one.
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Films are even stranger, for what we are seeing are not disguised people but photographs of disguised people, and yet we believe them while the film is being shown.
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A man sets himself the task of portraying the world. Shortly before he dies he discovers that this patient labyrinth of lines is a drawing of his own face.
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Reality favors symmetry.
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I am not sure that I exist, actually. I am all the writers that I have read, all the people that I have met, all the women that I have loved; all the cities I have visited.
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I can give you my loneliness, my darkness, the hunger of my heart, I am trying to bribe you with uncertainty, with danger, with defeat.
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When I write, I do it urged by an intimate necessity. I don’t have in mind an exclusive public, or a public of multitudes, I don’t think in either thing. I think about expressing what I want to say. I try to do it in the simplest way possible.
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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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