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.
JORGE LUIS BORGESMy undertaking is not difficult, essentially. I should only have to be immortal to carry it out.
More Jorge Luis Borges Quotes
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The dictionary is based on the hypothesis — obviously an unproven one — that languages are made up of equivalent synonyms.
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The visible universe was an illusion or, more precisely, a sophism. Mirrors and fatherhood are abominable because they multiply it and extend it.
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Every man should be capable of all ideas.
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Personally, I am a hedonistic reader; I have never read a book merely because it was ancient. I read books for the aesthetic emotions they offer me, and I ignore the commentaries and criticism.
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The fact is that poetry is not the books in the library. Poetry is the encounter of the reader with the book, the discovery of the book.
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I gazed at every mirror on the planet, not one gave back my reflection.
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Loneliness does not worry me; life is difficult enough, putting up with yourself and with your own habits.
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What you really value is what you miss, not what you have.
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A book is not an isolated being: it is a relationship, an axis of innumerable relationships
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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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A writer should have another lifetime to see if he’s appreciated.
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To die for a religion is easier than to live it absolutely.
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He consorted with prostitutes and poets and with persons even worse.
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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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I walk slowly, like one who comes from so far away he doesn’t expect to arrive.
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