Time forks perpetually toward innumerable futures.
JORGE LUIS BORGESTruth never penetrates an unwilling mind.
More Jorge Luis Borges Quotes
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The future is as irrevocable as an inflexible yesterday.
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Perhaps the apparent favor of the universe is no more than the crocodile grin of a Doberman breathing hard and about to be hungry?
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The original is unfaithful to the translation.
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I think of reading a book as no less an experience than travelling or falling in love.
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I have committed the worst of sins one can commit. I have not been happy.
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We are our memory, we are that chimerical museum of shifting shapes, that pile of broken mirrors.
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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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Only in the present do things happen.
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A system is nothing more than the subordination of all aspects of the universe to any one of such aspects.
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Art is very mysterious. I wonder if you can really do any damage to art. I think that when we’re writing, something comes through or should come through, in spite of our theories. So theories are not really important.
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Time can’t be measured in days the way money is measured in pesos and centavos, because all pesos are equal, while every day, perhaps every hour, is different.
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What will die with me when I die, what pathetic or fragile form will the world lose?
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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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Being with you and not being with you is the only way I have to measure time.
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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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