He consorted with prostitutes and poets and with persons even worse.
JORGE LUIS BORGESI would rather like to think of God as being a kind of adventurer – even as Wells thought about him – or perhaps as something within us making for some unknown purpose.
More Jorge Luis Borges Quotes
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Personally, I am a hedonistic reader; I have never read a book merely because it was ancient. I read books for the aesthetic emotions they offer me, and I ignore the commentaries and criticism.
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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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What a writer wants to do is not what he does.
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Time, which despoils castles, enriches verses.
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May Heaven exist, even if my place is Hell.
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The visible universe was an illusion or, more precisely, a sophism. Mirrors and fatherhood are abominable because they multiply it and extend it.
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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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I believe books will never disappear. It is impossible for it to happen. Of all man’s diverse tools, undoubtedly the most astounding are his books… If books were to disappear, history would disappear. So would man.
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Democracy is an abuse of statistics.
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We have stopped believing in progress. What progress that is !
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In Spanish it is very difficult to make things flow, because words are over-long. But in English, you have light words.
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My books standing there on the shelf do not know that I have written them.
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What will die with me when I die, what pathetic or fragile form will the world lose?
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Being an agnostic means all things are possible, even God, even the Holy Trinity. This world is so strange that anything may happen, or may not happen. Being an agnostic makes me live in a larger, a more fantastic kind of world, almost uncanny. It makes me more tolerant.
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Everything touches everything.
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