The future has no other reality than as present hope, and the past is no more than present memory.
JORGE LUIS BORGESI saw a sunset in Queretaro that seemed to reflect the color of a rose in Bengal.
More Jorge Luis Borges Quotes
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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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From my weakness, I drew strength that never left me.
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In adultery, there is usually tenderness and self-sacrifice; in murder, courage; in profanation and blasphemy, a certain satanic splendour. Judas elected those offences unvisited by any virtues: abuse of confidence and informing.
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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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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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We accept reality so readily – perhaps because we sense that nothing is real.
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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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Soccer is popular because stupidity is popular.
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You may win your heart’s desire, but in the end you’re cheated of it by death.
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I would rather like to think of God as being a kind of adventurer – even as Wells thought about him – or perhaps as something within us making for some unknown purpose.
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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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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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Your unforgivable sins do not allow you to see my splendor.
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I have always come to life after coming to books.
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