Everything touches everything.
JORGE LUIS BORGESReality may avoid the obligation to be interesting, but hypotheses may not.
More Jorge Luis Borges Quotes
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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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Reality is not always probable, or likely.
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The task of art is to transform what is continuously happening to us, to transform all of these things into symbols, into music, into something which can last in man’s memory. That is our duty. If we don’t fulfill it, we feel unhappy.
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May Heaven exist, even if my place is Hell.
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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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From my weakness, I drew strength that never left me.
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Each thing implies the universe.
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Soccer is popular because stupidity is popular.
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We have stopped believing in progress. What progress that is !
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Censorship is the mother of metaphor.
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While we are asleep in this world, we are awake in another one.
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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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Being with you and not being with you is the only way I have to measure time.
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I think most people are more important than their opinions.
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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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A writer should have another lifetime to see if he’s appreciated.
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Loneliness does not worry me; life is difficult enough, putting up with yourself and with your own habits.
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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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The things that are said in literature are always the same. What is important is the way they are said.
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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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Every man should be capable of all ideas.
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A writer needs loneliness, and he gets his share of it. He needs love, and he gets shared and also unshared love. He needs friendship. In fact, he needs the universe. To be a writer is, in a sense, to be a day-dreamer – to be living a kind of double life.
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What a writer wants to do is not what he does.
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What I’m really concerned about is reaching one person. And that person may be myself for all I know.
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Writing is nothing more than a guided dream.
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Death is just infinity closing in.
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