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.
JORGE LUIS BORGESPoetry remembers that it was an oral art before it was a written art.
More Jorge Luis Borges Quotes
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He consorted with prostitutes and poets and with persons even worse.
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Being an agnostic means all things are possible, even God, even the Holy Trinity. This world is so strange that anything may happen, or may not happen. Being an agnostic makes me live in a larger, a more fantastic kind of world, almost uncanny. It makes me more tolerant.
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I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.
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Soccer is popular because stupidity is popular.
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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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The future is inevitable and precise, but it may not occur. God lurks in the gaps.
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The earth we inhabit is an error, an incompetent parody. Mirrors and paternity are abominable because they multiply and affirm it.
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Only in the present do things happen.
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The heresies we should fear are those which can be confused with orthodoxy.
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Death is just infinity closing in.
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You have wakened not out of sleep, but into a prior dream, and that dream lies within another, and so on, to infinity, which is the number of grains of sand. The path that you are to take is endless, and you will die before you have truly awakened.
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The Falklands thing was a fight between two bald men over a comb.
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Chang Tzu tells us of a persevering man who after three laborious years mastered the art of dragon-slaying. For the rest of his days, he had not a single opportunity to test his skills.
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I thought that a man can be an enemy of other men, of the moments of other men, but not of a country: not of fireflies, words, gardens, streams of water, sunsets.
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When you reach my age, you realize you couldn’t have done things very much better or much worse than you did them in the first place.
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No one is anyone, one single immortal man is all men. Like Cornelius Agrippa, I am god, I am hero, I am philosopher, I am demon and I am world, which is a tedious way of saying that I do not exist.
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The original is unfaithful to the translation.
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Let others pride themselves about how many pages they have written; I’d rather boast about the ones I’ve read.
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The man who acquires an encyclopedia does not thereby acquire every line, every paragraph, every page, and every illustration; he acquires the possibility of becoming familiar with one and another of those things.
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Reality is not always probable, or likely.
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Censorship is the mother of metaphor.
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I can give you my loneliness, my darkness, the hunger of my heart, I am trying to bribe you with uncertainty, with danger, with defeat.
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Everything touches everything.
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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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I think that the reader should enrich what he is reading. He should misunderstand the text; he should change it into something else.
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The tango is a direct expression of something that poets have often tried to state in words: the belief that a fight may be a celebration.
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