The visible universe was an illusion or, more precisely, a sophism. Mirrors and fatherhood are abominable because they multiply it and extend it.
JORGE LUIS BORGESThe future is as irrevocable as an inflexible yesterday.
More Jorge Luis Borges Quotes
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What a writer wants to do is not what he does.
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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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Poets, like the blind, can see in the dark.
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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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We accept reality so readily – perhaps because we sense that nothing is real.
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Art is endless like a river flowing, passing, yet remaining.
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What you really value is what you miss, not what you have.
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Writing long books is a laborious and impoverishing act of foolishness: expanding in five hundred pages an idea that could be perfectly explained in a few minutes. A better procedure is to pretend that those books already exist and to offer a summary, a commentary.
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In our dreams (writes Coleridge) images represent the sensations we think they cause; we do not feel horror because we are threatened by a sphinx; we dream of a sphinx in order to explain the horror we feel.
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Time is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire.
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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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A poet is a discoverer rather than an inventor.
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I have sometimes suspected that the only thing that holds no mystery is happiness, because it is its own justification.
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I think most people are more important than their opinions.
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Happy are the beloved and the lovers and those who can live without love.
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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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In adultery, there is usually tenderness and self-sacrifice; in murder, courage; in profanation and blasphemy, a certain satanic splendour. Judas elected those offences unvisited by any virtues: abuse of confidence and informing.
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The future is inevitable and precise, but it may not occur. God lurks in the gaps.
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I walk slowly, like one who comes from so far away he doesn’t expect to arrive.
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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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It means much to have loved, to have been happy, to have laid my hand on the living Garden, even for a day.
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We have stopped believing in progress. What progress that is !
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Do you want to see what human eyes have never seen? Look at the moon. Do you want to hear what ears have never heard? Listen to the bird’s cry. Do you want to touch what hands have never touched? Touch the earth. Verily I say that God is about to create the world.
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Films are even stranger, for what we are seeing are not disguised people but photographs of disguised people, and yet we believe them while the film is being shown.
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Soccer is popular because stupidity is popular.
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One concept corrupts and confuses the others. I am not speaking of the Evil whose limited sphere is ethics; I am speaking of the infinite.
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