I gazed at every mirror on the planet, not one gave back my reflection.
JORGE LUIS BORGESIn my next life I will try to commit more errors.
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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A poet is a discoverer rather than an inventor.
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The heresies we should fear are those which can be confused with orthodoxy.
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Reality may avoid the obligation to be interesting, but hypotheses may not.
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How can we manage to illuminate the pathos of our lives?
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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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Everything touches everything.
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A book is not an isolated being: it is a relationship, an axis of innumerable relationships
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Death is just infinity closing in.
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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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To be immortal is commonplace; except for man, all creatures are immortal, for they are ignorant of death; what is divine, terrible, incomprehensible, is to know that one is immortal.
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Soccer is popular because stupidity is popular.
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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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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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It means much to have loved, to have been happy, to have laid my hand on the living Garden, even for a day.
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