Reality may avoid the obligation to be interesting, but hypotheses may not.
JORGE LUIS BORGESYou 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.
More Jorge Luis Borges Quotes
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I believe that in time we will have reached the point where we will deserve to be free of government.
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There is nothing in the world that is not mysterious, but the mystery is more evident in certain things than in others: in the sea, in the eyes of the elders, in the color yellow, and in music.
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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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Don’t talk unless you can improve the silence.
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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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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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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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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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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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Reality is partial to symmetry and slight anachronisms
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Dictatorships foster oppression, dictatorships foster servitude, dictatorships foster cruelty; more abominable is the fact that they foster idiocy.
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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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My undertaking is not difficult, essentially. I should only have to be immortal to carry it out.
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Time is the tiger that devours me, but I am that tiger.
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