I am not sure of anything, I know nothing. Can you imagine that I don’t even know the date of my own death?
JORGE LUIS BORGESWe are our memory, we are that chimerical museum of shifting shapes, that pile of broken mirrors.
More Jorge Luis Borges Quotes
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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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When I wake up, I wake to something worse. It’s the astonishment of being myself.
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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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Reality is not always probable, or likely.
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Doubt is one of the names of intelligence.
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The fact is that poetry is not the books in the library. Poetry is the encounter of the reader with the book, the discovery of the book.
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There is an hour of the afternoon when the plain is on the verge of saying something. It never says, or perhaps it says it infinitely, or perhaps we do not understand it, or we understand it and it is untranslatable as music.
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I am almost sure to be blotted out by death, but sometimes I think it is not impossible that I may continue to live in some other manner after my physical death . Or, as Hamlet wonders, what dreams will come when we leave this body?
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There is nothing in the world that is not mysterious, but the mystery is more evident in certain things than in others: in the sea, in the eyes of the elders, in the color yellow, and in music.
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The truth is that we live out our lives putting off all that can be put off; perhaps we all know deep down that we are immortal and that sooner or later all men will do and know all things.
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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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The future is inevitable and precise, but it may not occur. God lurks in the gaps.
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Writing is nothing more than a guided dream.
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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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We are our memory, we are that chimerical museum of shifting shapes, that pile of broken mirrors.
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