I might accept immortality, if I had to do it. But I would prefer – if there is any afterlife – to know nothing whatever about Borges, about his experiences in this world.
JORGE LUIS BORGESI cannot sleep unless I am surrounded by books.
More Jorge Luis Borges Quotes
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Time can’t be measured in days the way money is measured in pesos and centavos, because all pesos are equal, while every day, perhaps every hour, is different.
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Censorship is the mother of metaphor.
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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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Poetry remembers that it was an oral art before it was a written art.
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When I wake up, I wake to something worse. It’s the astonishment of being myself.
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Time forks perpetually toward innumerable futures.
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Heaven and hell seem out of proportion to me: the actions of men do not deserve so much.
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I saw a sunset in Queretaro that seemed to reflect the color of a rose in Bengal.
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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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The future has no other reality than as present hope, and the past is no more than present memory.
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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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Any life, however long and complicated it may be, actually consists of a single moment — the moment when a man knows forever more who he is.
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Life itself is a quotation.
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You may win your heart’s desire, but in the end you’re cheated of it by death.
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In my next life I will try to commit more errors.
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The flattery of posterity is not worth much more than contemporary flattery, which is worth nothing.
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Another school declares that all time has already transpired and that our life is only the crepuscular and no doubt falsified and mutilated memory or reflection of an irrecoverable process.
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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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Reality is partial to symmetry and slight anachronisms
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Whoever would undertake some atrocious enterprise should act as if it were already accomplished should impose upon himself a future as irrevocable as the past.
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When writers die they become books, which is, after all, not too bad an incarnation.
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I think most people are more important than their opinions.
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Democracy is an abuse of statistics.
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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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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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So plant your own gardens and decorate your own soul, instead of waiting for someone to bring you flowers.
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