It’s a shame that we have to choose between two such second-rate countries as the USSR and the USA.
JORGE LUIS BORGES
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It’s a shame that we have to choose between two such second-rate countries as the USSR and the USA.
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When one confesses to an act, one ceases to be an actor in it and becomes its witness, becomes a man that observes and narrates it and no longer the man that performed it.
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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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Writing is nothing more than a guided dream.
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Art is endless like a river flowing, passing, yet remaining.
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We have stopped believing in progress. What progress that is !
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Reality is partial to symmetry and slight anachronisms
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Every man should be capable of all ideas.
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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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Each thing implies the universe.
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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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It is clear that there is no classification of the Universe that is not arbitrary and full of conjectures. The reason for this is very simple: we do not know what kind of thing the universe is.
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The word happiness exists in every language; it is plausible the thing itself exists.
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You can’t measure time by days, the way you measure money by dollars and cents, because dollars are all the same while every day is different and maybe every hour as well.
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A book is not an isolated being: it is a relationship, an axis of innumerable relationships
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