Doubt is one of the names of intelligence.
JORGE LUIS BORGESBeing with you and not being with you is the only way I have to measure time.
More Jorge Luis Borges Quotes
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Israelites, Christians and Muslims profess immortality, but the veneration they render this world proves they believe only in it, since they destine all other worlds, in infinite number, to be its reward or punishment.
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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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Truth never penetrates an unwilling mind.
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I think most people are more important than their opinions.
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We forget that we are all dead men conversing with dead men.
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What will die with me when I die, what pathetic or fragile form will the world lose?
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The minotaur more than justifies the existence of the labyrinth.
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Poets, like the blind, can see in the dark.
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The mind was dreaming. The world was its dream.
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From my weakness, I drew strength that never left me.
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I foresee that man will resign himself each day to new abominations, and soon that only bandits and soldiers will be left.
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Life itself is a quotation.
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I thought that a man can be an enemy of other men, of the moments of other men, but not of a country: not of fireflies, words, gardens, streams of water, sunsets.
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I had always thought of Paradise / In form and image as a library.
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The possibilities of the art of combination are not infinite, but they tend to be frightful.
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