Your unforgivable sins do not allow you to see my splendor.
JORGE LUIS BORGESWe accept reality so readily – perhaps because we sense that nothing is real.
More Jorge Luis Borges Quotes
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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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Reality favors symmetry.
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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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The minotaur more than justifies the existence of the labyrinth.
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You can’t measure time by days, the way you measure money by dollars and cents, because dollars are all the same while every day is different and maybe every hour as well.
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What I’m really concerned about is reaching one person. And that person may be myself for all I know.
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I gazed at every mirror on the planet, not one gave back my reflection.
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Films are even stranger, for what we are seeing are not disguised people but photographs of disguised people, and yet we believe them while the film is being shown.
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I am almost sure to be blotted out by death, but sometimes I think it is not impossible that I may continue to live in some other manner after my physical death . Or, as Hamlet wonders, what dreams will come when we leave this body?
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I think that the reader should enrich what he is reading. He should misunderstand the text; he should change it into something else.
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A poet is a discoverer rather than an inventor.
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Man’s memory shapes Its own Eden within.
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Time is the tiger that devours me, but I am that tiger.
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The future is as irrevocable as an inflexible yesterday.
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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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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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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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The truth is that we live out our lives putting off all that can be put off; perhaps we all know deep down that we are immortal and that sooner or later all men will do and know all things.
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Soccer is popular because stupidity is popular.
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I have always come to life after coming to books.
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If space is infinite, we may be at any point in space. If time is infinite, we may be at any point in time.
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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.
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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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When writers die they become books, which is, after all, not too bad an incarnation.
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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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Poetry remembers that it was an oral art before it was a written art.
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