Reality is not always probable, or likely.
JORGE LUIS BORGESLife itself is a quotation.
More Jorge Luis Borges Quotes
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My undertaking is not difficult, essentially. I should only have to be immortal to carry it out.
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There is an hour of the afternoon when the plain is on the verge of saying something. It never says, or perhaps it says it infinitely, or perhaps we do not understand it, or we understand it and it is untranslatable as music.
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So plant your own gardens and decorate your own soul, instead of waiting for someone to bring you flowers.
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From my weakness, I drew strength that never left me.
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In general, every country has the language it deserves.
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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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A poet is a discoverer rather than an inventor.
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The mightiest love was granted him Love that does not expect to be loved.
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I think most people are more important than their opinions.
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Personally, I am a hedonistic reader; I have never read a book merely because it was ancient. I read books for the aesthetic emotions they offer me, and I ignore the commentaries and criticism.
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Life itself is a quotation.
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Art is very mysterious. I wonder if you can really do any damage to art. I think that when we’re writing, something comes through or should come through, in spite of our theories. So theories are not really important.
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Soccer is popular because stupidity is popular.
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Another school declares that all time has already transpired and that our life is only the crepuscular and no doubt falsified and mutilated memory or reflection of an irrecoverable process.
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I ask of any God, of any gods, that if they give immortality, I hope to be granted oblivion also.
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A writer’s work is the product of laziness.
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I thought that a man can be an enemy of other men, of the moments of other men, but not of a country: not of fireflies, words, gardens, streams of water, sunsets.
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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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Everything touches everything.
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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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I never reread what I’ve written. I’m far too afraid to feel ashamed of what I’ve done.
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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.
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In all fiction, when a man is faced with alternatives he chooses one at the expense of others.
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Many of the characters are fools and they’re always playing tricks on me and treating me badly.
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Reality may avoid the obligation to be interesting, but hypotheses may not.
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I think of reading a book as no less an experience than travelling or falling in love.
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