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.
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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I am not sure that I exist, actually. I am all the writers that I have read, all the people that I have met, all the women that I have loved; all the cities I have visited.
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He thought that the rose was to be found in its own eternity and not in his words; and that we may mention or allude to a thing, but not express it.
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Man’s memory shapes Its own Eden within.
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Israelites, Christians and Muslims profess immortality, but the veneration they render this world proves they believe only in it, since they destine all other worlds, in infinite number, to be its reward or punishment.
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Happy are the beloved and the lovers and those who can live without love.
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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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Any life, however long and complicated it may be, actually consists of a single moment — the moment when a man knows forever more who he is.
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Time is the tiger that devours me, but I am that tiger.
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Life itself is a quotation.
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I foresee that man will resign himself each day to new abominations, and soon that only bandits and soldiers will be left.
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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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Poetry remembers that it was an oral art before it was a written art.
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My books standing there on the shelf do not know that I have written them.
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While we are asleep in this world, we are awake in another one.
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