We forget that we are all dead men conversing with dead men.
JORGE LUIS BORGESIt’s a shame that we have to choose between two such second-rate countries as the USSR and the USA.
More Jorge Luis Borges Quotes
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I have always come to life after coming to books.
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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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The mightiest love was granted him Love that does not expect to be loved.
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Reality is partial to symmetry and slight anachronisms
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In my next life I will try to commit more errors.
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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 suppose identity depends on memory. And if my memory is blotted out, then I wonder if I exist – I mean, if I am the same person. Of course, I don’t have to solve that problem. It’s up to God, if any.
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The Falklands thing was a fight between two bald men over a comb.
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What a writer wants to do is not what he does.
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Every man should be capable of all ideas.
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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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Only in the present do things happen.
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Thus my life is a flight and I lose everything and everything belongs to oblivion, or to him.
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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.
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I have preferred to teach my students not English literature but my love for certain authors, or, even better, certain pages, or even better than that, certain lines. One falls in love with a line, then with a page, then with an author. Well, why not? It is a beautiful process.
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