May Heaven exist, even if my place is Hell.
JORGE LUIS BORGESEvery novel is an ideal plane inserted into the realm of reality.
More Jorge Luis Borges Quotes
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In general, every country has the language it deserves.
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A writer should have another lifetime to see if he’s appreciated.
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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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All that happens to us, including our humiliations, our misfortunes, our embarrassments, all is given to us as raw material, as clay, so that we may shape our art.
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Nothing is built on stone; all is built on sand, but we must build as if the sand were stone.
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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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Censorship is the mother of metaphor.
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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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Truth never penetrates an unwilling mind.
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There’s no need to build a labyrinth when the entire universe is one.
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He was very religious; he believed that he had a secret pact with God which exempted him from doing good in exchange for prayers and piety.
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Beyond my anxiety, beyond this writing, the universe waits, inexhaustible, inviting.
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I foresee that man will resign himself each day to new abominations, and soon that only bandits and soldiers will be left.
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Israelites, Christians and Muslims profess immortality, but the veneration they render this world proves they believe only in it, since they destine all other worlds, in infinite number, to be its reward or punishment.
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The mightiest love was granted him Love that does not expect to be loved.
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