I believe books will never disappear. It is impossible for it to happen. Of all man’s diverse tools, undoubtedly the most astounding are his books… If books were to disappear, history would disappear. So would man.
JORGE LUIS BORGESTo fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.
More Jorge Luis Borges Quotes
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A system is nothing more than the subordination of all aspects of the universe to any one of such aspects.
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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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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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Time is the tiger that devours me, but I am that tiger.
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Death is just infinity closing in.
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I have committed the worst of sins one can commit. I have not been happy.
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Truth never penetrates an unwilling mind.
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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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The central fact of my life has been the existence of words and the possibility of weaving those words into poetry.
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There is no point in being overwhelmed by the appalling total of human sufferring; such a total does not exist. Neither poverty nor pain is accumulable.
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Beyond my anxiety, beyond this writing, the universe waits, inexhaustible, inviting.
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Every novel is an ideal plane inserted into the realm of reality.
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We accept reality so readily – perhaps because we sense that nothing is real.
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Time forks perpetually toward innumerable futures.
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Being with you and not being with you is the only way I have to measure time.
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