To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.
JORGE LUIS BORGESWhat will die with me when I die, what pathetic or fragile form will the world lose?
More Jorge Luis Borges Quotes
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In all fiction, when a man is faced with alternatives he chooses one at the expense of others.
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The minotaur more than justifies the existence of the labyrinth.
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Only in the present do things happen.
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A writer’s work is the product of laziness.
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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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Time is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire.
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Chang Tzu tells us of a persevering man who after three laborious years mastered the art of dragon-slaying. For the rest of his days, he had not a single opportunity to test his skills.
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How can we manage to illuminate the pathos of our lives?
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In my next life I will try to commit more errors.
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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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A writer needs loneliness, and he gets his share of it. He needs love, and he gets shared and also unshared love. He needs friendship. In fact, he needs the universe. To be a writer is, in a sense, to be a day-dreamer – to be living a kind of double life.
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In general, every country has the language it deserves.
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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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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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My undertaking is not difficult, essentially. I should only have to be immortal to carry it out.
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