My undertaking is not difficult, essentially. I should only have to be immortal to carry it out.
JORGE LUIS BORGESWhen you come right down to it, opinions are the most superficial things about anyone.
More Jorge Luis Borges Quotes
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Time is the substance from which I am made. Time is a river which carries me along, but I am the river; it is a tiger that devours me, but I am the tiger; it is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire.
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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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Truth never penetrates an unwilling mind.
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I do not write for a select minority, which means nothing to me, nor for that adulated platonic entity known as ‘The Masses’. Both abstractions, so dear to the demagogue, I disbelieve in. I write for myself and for my friends, and I write to ease the passing of time.
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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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Each thing implies the universe.
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Writing is nothing more than a guided dream.
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I think that the reader should enrich what he is reading. He should misunderstand the text; he should change it into something else.
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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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Reality may avoid the obligation to be interesting, but hypotheses may not.
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A writer’s work is the product of laziness.
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Censorship is the mother of metaphor.
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Only in the present do things happen.
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Thus my life is a flight and I lose everything and everything belongs to oblivion, or to him.
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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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Loneliness does not worry me; life is difficult enough, putting up with yourself and with your own habits.
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I gazed at every mirror on the planet, not one gave back my reflection.
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I cannot sleep unless I am surrounded by books.
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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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When I wake up, I wake to something worse. It’s the astonishment of being myself.
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Man’s memory shapes Its own Eden within.
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The Falklands thing was a fight between two bald men over a comb.
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We accept reality so readily – perhaps because we sense that nothing is real.
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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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The word happiness exists in every language; it is plausible the thing itself exists.
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I have always come to life after coming to books.
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