Reality is not always probable, or likely.
JORGE LUIS BORGESI 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.
More Jorge Luis Borges Quotes
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I am not sure that I exist, actually. I am all the writers that I have read, all the people that I have met, all the women that I have loved; all the cities I have visited.
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Soccer is popular because stupidity is popular.
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When I wake up, I wake to something worse. It’s the astonishment of being myself.
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Perhaps the apparent favor of the universe is no more than the crocodile grin of a Doberman breathing hard and about to be hungry?
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I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.
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Truth never penetrates an unwilling mind.
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Reality is partial to symmetry and slight anachronisms
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We accept reality so readily – perhaps because we sense that nothing is real.
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The fact is that poetry is not the books in the library. Poetry is the encounter of the reader with the book, the discovery of the book.
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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 saw all the mirrors on earth and none of them reflected me.
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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 writer needs loneliness, and he gets his share of it. He needs love, and he gets shared and also unshared love. He needs friendship. In fact, he needs the universe. To be a writer is, in a sense, to be a day-dreamer – to be living a kind of double life.
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The heresies we should fear are those which can be confused with orthodoxy.
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No one is a poet from eight to twelve and from two to six. Whoever is a poet is one always, and continually assaulted by poetry.
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