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.
JORGE LUIS BORGESThe visible universe was an illusion or, more precisely, a sophism. Mirrors and fatherhood are abominable because they multiply it and extend it.
More Jorge Luis Borges Quotes
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There is nothing in the world that is not mysterious, but the mystery is more evident in certain things than in others: in the sea, in the eyes of the elders, in the color yellow, and in music.
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We accept reality so readily – perhaps because we sense that nothing is real.
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I have committed the worst of sins one can commit. I have not been happy.
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I cannot walk through the suburbs in the solitude of the night without thinking that the night pleases us because it suppresses idle details, just as our memory does.
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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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What you really value is what you miss, not what you have.
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Heaven and hell seem out of proportion to me: the actions of men do not deserve so much.
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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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I saw a sunset in Queretaro that seemed to reflect the color of a rose in Bengal.
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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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When I feel I’m going to write something, then I just am quiet and I try to listen. Then something comes through. And I do what I can in order not to tamper with it.
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The sea is an idiom I cannot decipher.
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Death is just infinity closing in.
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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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I have sometimes suspected that the only thing that holds no mystery is happiness, because it is its own justification.
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