From my weakness, I drew strength that never left me.
JORGE LUIS BORGESWhile we are asleep in this world, we are awake in another one.
More Jorge Luis Borges Quotes
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I have always come to life after coming to books.
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Every man should be capable of all ideas.
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Reality may avoid the obligation to be interesting, but hypotheses may not.
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A system is nothing more than the subordination of all aspects of the universe to any one of such aspects.
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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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The earth we inhabit is an error, an incompetent parody. Mirrors and paternity are abominable because they multiply and affirm it.
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My books standing there on the shelf do not know that I have written them.
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Poetry remembers that it was an oral art before it was a written art.
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Whoever would undertake some atrocious enterprise should act as if it were already accomplished should impose upon himself a future as irrevocable as the past.
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Censorship is the mother of metaphor.
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Each thing implies the universe.
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Time is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire.
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A book is not an isolated being: it is a relationship, an axis of innumerable relationships
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We have stopped believing in progress. What progress that is !
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The word happiness exists in every language; it is plausible the thing itself exists.
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