It also occurred to him that throughout history, humankind has told two stories: the story of a lost ship sailing the Mediterranean seas in quest of a beloved isle, and the story of a god who allows himself to be crucified on Golgotha.
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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There’s no need to build a labyrinth when the entire universe is one.
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The central fact of my life has been the existence of words and the possibility of weaving those words into poetry.
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Blindness has not been for me a total misfortune; it should not be seen in a pathetic way. It should be seen as a way of life: one of the styles of living.
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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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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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If I were asked to name the chief event in my life, I should say my father’s library.
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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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No one is anyone, one single immortal man is all men. Like Cornelius Agrippa, I am god, I am hero, I am philosopher, I am demon and I am world, which is a tedious way of saying that I do not exist.
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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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My books standing there on the shelf do not know that I have written them.
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Whoever would undertake some atrocious enterprise should act as if it were already accomplished should impose upon himself a future as irrevocable as the past.
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From my weakness, I drew strength that never left me.
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To say good-bye is to deny separation; it is to say Today we play at going our own ways, but we’ll see each other tomorrow. Men invented farewells because they somehow knew themselves to be immortal, even while seeing themselves as contingent and ephemeral.
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While we are asleep in this world, we are awake in another one.
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The future is as irrevocable as an inflexible yesterday.
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The mind was dreaming. The world was its dream.
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Nothing is built on stone; all is built on sand, but we must build as if the sand were stone.
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I am not sure that I exist, actually. I am all the writers that I have read, all the people that I have met, all the women that I have loved; all the cities I have visited.
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Happy are the beloved and the lovers and those who can live without love.
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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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The flattery of posterity is not worth much more than contemporary flattery, which is worth nothing.
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To arrange a library is to practice in a quiet and modest way the art of criticism.
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I 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.
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A book is not an isolated being: it is a relationship, an axis of innumerable relationships
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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 gazed at every mirror on the planet, not one gave back my reflection.
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