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.
JORGE LUIS BORGESWhen 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.
More Jorge Luis Borges Quotes
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I suppose identity depends on memory. And if my memory is blotted out, then I wonder if I exist – I mean, if I am the same person. Of course, I don’t have to solve that problem. It’s up to God, if any.
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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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Your unforgivable sins do not allow you to see my splendor.
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Doubt is one of the names of intelligence.
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Dictatorships foster oppression, dictatorships foster servitude, dictatorships foster cruelty; more abominable is the fact that they foster idiocy.
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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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Art is very mysterious. I wonder if you can really do any damage to art. I think that when we’re writing, something comes through or should come through, in spite of our theories. So theories are not really important.
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The mind was dreaming. The world was its dream.
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Reality favors symmetry.
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I would rather like to think of God as being a kind of adventurer – even as Wells thought about him – or perhaps as something within us making for some unknown purpose.
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I have preferred to teach my students not English literature but my love for certain authors, or, even better, certain pages, or even better than that, certain lines. One falls in love with a line, then with a page, then with an author. Well, why not? It is a beautiful process.
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I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.
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To arrange a library is to practice in a quiet and modest way the art of criticism.
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Then I reflect that all things happen, happen to one, precisely now. Century follows century, and things happen only in the present. There are countless men in the air, on land and at sea, and all that really happens happens to me.
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I walk slowly, like one who comes from so far away he doesn’t expect to arrive.
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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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Censorship is the mother of metaphor.
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I cannot walk through the suburbs in the solitude of the night without thinking that the night pleases us because it suppresses idle details, just as our memory does.
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Poets, like the blind, can see in the dark.
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The future is inevitable and precise, but it may not occur. God lurks in the gaps.
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In my next life I will try to commit more errors.
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The minotaur more than justifies the existence of the labyrinth.
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Thus my life is a flight and I lose everything and everything belongs to oblivion, or to him.
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Reality may avoid the obligation to be interesting, but hypotheses may not.
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If I were asked to name the chief event in my life, I should say my father’s library.
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We have a very precise image – an image at times shameless – of what we have lost, but we are ignorant of what may follow or replace it.
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