Chang Tzu tells us of a persevering man who after three laborious years mastered the art of dragon-slaying. For the rest of his days, he had not a single opportunity to test his skills.
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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My books standing there on the shelf do not know that I have written them.
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The worst labyrinth is not that intricate form that can entrap us forever, but a single and precise straight line.
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Being an agnostic means all things are possible, even God, even the Holy Trinity. This world is so strange that anything may happen, or may not happen. Being an agnostic makes me live in a larger, a more fantastic kind of world, almost uncanny. It makes me more tolerant.
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You may win your heart’s desire, but in the end you’re cheated of it by death.
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The visible universe was an illusion or, more precisely, a sophism. Mirrors and fatherhood are abominable because they multiply it and extend it.
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Whoever would undertake some atrocious enterprise should act as if it were already accomplished should impose upon himself a future as irrevocable as the past.
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Everything touches everything.
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To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.
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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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Man’s memory shapes Its own Eden within.
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I ask of any God, of any gods, that if they give immortality, I hope to be granted oblivion also.
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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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Happy are the beloved and the lovers and those who can live without love.
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Reality is partial to symmetry and slight anachronisms
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He thought that the rose was to be found in its own eternity and not in his words; and that we may mention or allude to a thing, but not express it.
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