We have stopped believing in progress. What progress that is !
JORGE LUIS BORGESThere’s no need to build a labyrinth when the entire universe is one.
More Jorge Luis Borges Quotes
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Only in the present do things happen.
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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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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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It’s a shame that we have to choose between two such second-rate countries as the USSR and the USA.
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For me, beauty is a physical sensation, something we feel with our whole body. It is not the result of judgement. We do not arrive at it by way of rules. We either feel beauty or we don’t.
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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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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’s no need to build a labyrinth when the entire universe is one.
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The future has no other reality than as present hope, and the past is no more than present memory.
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When writers die they become books, which is, after all, not too bad an incarnation.
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Reality favors symmetry.
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Writing is nothing more than a guided dream.
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The dictionary is based on the hypothesis — obviously an unproven one — that languages are made up of equivalent synonyms.
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Happy are the beloved and the lovers and those who can live without love.
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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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