Time forks perpetually toward innumerable futures.
JORGE LUIS BORGESIn general, every country has the language it deserves.
More Jorge Luis Borges Quotes
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The future is as irrevocable as an inflexible yesterday.
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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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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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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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Heaven and hell seem out of proportion to me: the actions of men do not deserve so much.
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We have stopped believing in progress. What progress that is !
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The mightiest love was granted him Love that does not expect to be loved.
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When you reach my age, you realize you couldn’t have done things very much better or much worse than you did them in the first place.
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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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He thought that the rose was to be found in its own eternity and not in his words; and that we may mention or allude to a thing, but not express it.
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I have committed the worst of sins one can commit. I have not been happy.
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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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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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If I were asked to name the chief event in my life, I should say my father’s library.
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Time is the substance from which I am made. Time is a river which carries me along, but I am the river; it is a tiger that devours me, but I am the tiger; it is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire.
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