Don’t talk unless you can improve the silence.
JORGE LUIS BORGESI have always come to life after coming to books.
More Jorge Luis Borges Quotes
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I am not sure of anything, I know nothing. Can you imagine that I don’t even know the date of my own death?
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Truth never penetrates an unwilling mind.
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The mind was dreaming. The world was its dream.
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Time is the tiger that devours me, but I am that tiger.
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No one is anyone, one single immortal man is all men. Like Cornelius Agrippa, I am god, I am hero, I am philosopher, I am demon and I am world, which is a tedious way of saying that I do not exist.
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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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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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Any life, however long and complicated it may be, actually consists of a single moment — the moment when a man knows forever more who he is.
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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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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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I saw a sunset in Queretaro that seemed to reflect the color of a rose in Bengal.
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A writer – and, I believe, generally all persons – must think that whatever happens to him or her is a resource.
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My books standing there on the shelf do not know that I have written them.
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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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I am almost sure to be blotted out by death, but sometimes I think it is not impossible that I may continue to live in some other manner after my physical death . Or, as Hamlet wonders, what dreams will come when we leave this body?
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