Every novel is an ideal plane inserted into the realm of reality.
JORGE LUIS BORGESA man sets himself the task of portraying the world. Shortly before he dies he discovers that this patient labyrinth of lines is a drawing of his own face.
More Jorge Luis Borges Quotes
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Beyond my anxiety, beyond this writing, the universe waits, inexhaustible, inviting.
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Art is endless like a river flowing, passing, yet remaining.
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Your unforgivable sins do not allow you to see my splendor.
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Time is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire.
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I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.
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Then I reflect that all things happen, happen to one, precisely now. Century follows century, and things happen only in the present. There are countless men in the air, on land and at sea, and all that really happens happens to me.
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It’s a shame that we have to choose between two such second-rate countries as the USSR and the USA.
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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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I suppose identity depends on memory. And if my memory is blotted out, then I wonder if I exist – I mean, if I am the same person. Of course, I don’t have to solve that problem. It’s up to God, if any.
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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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We forget that we are all dead men conversing with dead men.
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Soccer is popular because stupidity is popular.
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Each thing implies the universe.
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It means much to have loved, to have been happy, to have laid my hand on the living Garden, even for a day.
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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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