Your unforgivable sins do not allow you to see my splendor.
JORGE LUIS BORGESMay Heaven exist, even if my place is Hell.
More Jorge Luis Borges Quotes
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In my next life I will try to commit more errors.
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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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I ask of any God, of any gods, that if they give immortality, I hope to be granted oblivion also.
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The future is inevitable and precise, but it may not occur. God lurks in the gaps.
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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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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.
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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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A writer’s work is the product of laziness.
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So plant your own gardens and decorate your own soul, instead of waiting for someone to bring you flowers.
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We are our memory, we are that chimerical museum of shifting shapes, that pile of broken mirrors.
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Blindness has not been for me a total misfortune; it should not be seen in a pathetic way. It should be seen as a way of life: one of the styles of living.
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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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The dictionary is based on the hypothesis — obviously an unproven one — that languages are made up of equivalent synonyms.
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Writing is nothing more than a guided dream.
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Time, which despoils castles, enriches verses.
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