The Falklands thing was a fight between two bald men over a comb.
JORGE LUIS BORGESDeath is just infinity closing in.
More Jorge Luis Borges Quotes
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In my next life I will try to commit more errors.
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Heaven and hell seem out of proportion to me: the actions of men do not deserve so much.
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Your unforgivable sins do not allow you to see my splendor.
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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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Art is endless like a river flowing, passing, yet remaining.
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When I wake up, I wake to something worse. It’s the astonishment of being myself.
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To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.
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You can’t measure time by days, the way you measure money by dollars and cents, because dollars are all the same while every day is different and maybe every hour as well.
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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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He consorted with prostitutes and poets and with persons even worse.
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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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What I’m really concerned about is reaching one person. And that person may be myself for all I know.
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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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I cannot sleep unless I am surrounded by books.
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If space is infinite, we may be at any point in space. If time is infinite, we may be at any point in time.
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It also occurred to him that throughout history, humankind has told two stories: the story of a lost ship sailing the Mediterranean seas in quest of a beloved isle, and the story of a god who allows himself to be crucified on Golgotha.
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Reality favors symmetry.
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Writing is nothing more than a guided dream.
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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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Whoever would undertake some atrocious enterprise should act as if it were already accomplished should impose upon himself a future as irrevocable as the past.
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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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How can we manage to illuminate the pathos of our lives?
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Beyond my anxiety, beyond this writing, the universe waits, inexhaustible, inviting.
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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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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 mightiest love was granted him Love that does not expect to be loved.
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