Life itself is a quotation.
JORGE LUIS BORGESThe Falklands thing was a fight between two bald men over a comb.
More Jorge Luis Borges Quotes
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Each thing implies the universe.
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Everything touches everything.
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We accept reality so readily – perhaps because we sense that nothing is real.
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Happy are the beloved and the lovers and those who can live without love.
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The worst labyrinth is not that intricate form that can entrap us forever, but a single and precise straight line.
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I suppose identity depends on memory. And if my memory is blotted out, then I wonder if I exist – I mean, if I am the same person. Of course, I don’t have to solve that problem. It’s up to God, if any.
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For me, beauty is a physical sensation, something we feel with our whole body. It is not the result of judgement. We do not arrive at it by way of rules. We either feel beauty or we don’t.
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It is clear that there is no classification of the Universe that is not arbitrary and full of conjectures. The reason for this is very simple: we do not know what kind of thing the universe is.
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Death is just infinity closing in.
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Do you want to see what human eyes have never seen? Look at the moon. Do you want to hear what ears have never heard? Listen to the bird’s cry. Do you want to touch what hands have never touched? Touch the earth. Verily I say that God is about to create the world.
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What you really value is what you miss, not what you have.
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I ask of any God, of any gods, that if they give immortality, I hope to be granted oblivion also.
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The Falklands thing was a fight between two bald men over a comb.
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Another school declares that all time has already transpired and that our life is only the crepuscular and no doubt falsified and mutilated memory or reflection of an irrecoverable process.
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I have committed the worst of sins one can commit. I have not been happy.
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The future is inevitable and precise, but it may not occur. God lurks in the gaps.
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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 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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I cannot sleep unless I am surrounded by books.
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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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When I wake up, I wake to something worse. It’s the astonishment of being myself.
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We have a very precise image – an image at times shameless – of what we have lost, but we are ignorant of what may follow or replace it.
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We are our memory, we are that chimerical museum of shifting shapes, that pile of broken mirrors.
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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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Reality is partial to symmetry and slight anachronisms
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A man sets himself the task of portraying the world. Shortly before he dies he discovers that this patient labyrinth of lines is a drawing of his own face.
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