Many of the characters are fools and they’re always playing tricks on me and treating me badly.
JORGE LUIS BORGESYou may win your heart’s desire, but in the end you’re cheated of it by death.
More Jorge Luis Borges Quotes
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All that happens to us, including our humiliations, our misfortunes, our embarrassments, all is given to us as raw material, as clay, so that we may shape our art.
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A poet is a discoverer rather than an inventor.
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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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I am not sure of anything, I know nothing. Can you imagine that I don’t even know the date of my own death?
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I gazed at every mirror on the planet, not one gave back my reflection.
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The flattery of posterity is not worth much more than contemporary flattery, which is worth nothing.
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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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It also occurred to him that throughout history, humankind has told two stories: the story of a lost ship sailing the Mediterranean seas in quest of a beloved isle, and the story of a god who allows himself to be crucified on Golgotha.
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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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To die for a religion is easier than to live it absolutely.
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Man’s memory shapes Its own Eden within.
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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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If I were asked to name the chief event in my life, I should say my father’s library.
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What a writer wants to do is not what he does.
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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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