The minotaur more than justifies the existence of the labyrinth.
JORGE LUIS BORGESTruth never penetrates an unwilling mind.
More Jorge Luis Borges Quotes
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The mightiest love was granted him Love that does not expect to be loved.
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We forget that we are all dead men conversing with dead men.
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To die for a religion is easier than to live it absolutely.
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I never reread what I’ve written. I’m far too afraid to feel ashamed of what I’ve done.
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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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A writer – and, I believe, generally all persons – must think that whatever happens to him or her is a resource.
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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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I have committed the worst of sins one can commit. I have not been happy.
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When one confesses to an act, one ceases to be an actor in it and becomes its witness, becomes a man that observes and narrates it and no longer the man that performed it.
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Every man should be capable of all ideas.
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I believe that in time we will have reached the point where we will deserve to be free of government.
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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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There is no point in being overwhelmed by the appalling total of human sufferring; such a total does not exist. Neither poverty nor pain is accumulable.
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Each thing implies the universe.
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Democracy is an abuse of statistics.
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