Time forks perpetually toward innumerable futures.
JORGE LUIS BORGESI ask of any God, of any gods, that if they give immortality, I hope to be granted oblivion also.
More Jorge Luis Borges Quotes
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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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May Heaven exist, even if my place is Hell.
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I saw all the mirrors on earth and none of them reflected me.
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Time, which despoils castles, enriches verses.
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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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I never reread what I’ve written. I’m far too afraid to feel ashamed of what I’ve done.
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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.
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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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Perhaps the apparent favor of the universe is no more than the crocodile grin of a Doberman breathing hard and about to be hungry?
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The tango is a direct expression of something that poets have often tried to state in words: the belief that a fight may be a celebration.
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If I were asked to name the chief event in my life, I should say my father’s library.
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Time can’t be measured in days the way money is measured in pesos and centavos, because all pesos are equal, while every day, perhaps every hour, is different.
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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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We are our memory, we are that chimerical museum of shifting shapes, that pile of broken mirrors.
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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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