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.
JORGE LUIS BORGES
In adultery, there is usually tenderness and self-sacrifice; in murder, courage; in profanation and blasphemy, a certain satanic splendour. Judas elected those offences unvisited by any virtues: abuse of confidence and informing.
More Jorge Luis Borges Quotes
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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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To die for a religion is easier than to live it absolutely.
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Writing is nothing more than a guided dream.
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I believe that in time we will have reached the point where we will deserve to be free of government.
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I have always come to life after coming to books.
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In my next life I will try to commit more errors.
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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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The heresies we should fear are those which can be confused with orthodoxy.
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Your unforgivable sins do not allow you to see my splendor.
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I have committed the worst of sins one can commit. I have not been happy.
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Don’t talk unless you can improve the silence.
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Films are even stranger, for what we are seeing are not disguised people but photographs of disguised people, and yet we believe them while the film is being shown.
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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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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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Every novel is an ideal plane inserted into the realm of reality.
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While we are asleep in this world, we are awake in another one.
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