The Falklands thing was a fight between two bald men over a comb.
JORGE LUIS BORGESEvery novel is an ideal plane inserted into the realm of reality.
More Jorge Luis Borges Quotes
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We accept reality so readily – perhaps because we sense that nothing is real.
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What you really value is what you miss, not what you have.
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Writing is nothing more than a guided dream.
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How can we manage to illuminate the pathos of our lives?
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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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Each thing implies the universe.
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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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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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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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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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Poetry remembers that it was an oral art before it was a written art.
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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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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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Soccer is popular because stupidity is popular.
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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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