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.
JORGE LUIS BORGESFilms are even stranger, for what we are seeing are not disguised people but photographs of disguised people, and yet we believe them while the film is being shown.
More Jorge Luis Borges Quotes
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The possibilities of the art of combination are not infinite, but they tend to be frightful.
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Writing is nothing more than a guided dream.
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Being with you and not being with you is the only way I have to measure time.
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He consorted with prostitutes and poets and with persons even worse.
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Creativity is suspended between memory and forgetting.
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I gazed at every mirror on the planet, not one gave back my reflection.
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In Spanish it is very difficult to make things flow, because words are over-long. But in English, you have light words.
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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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What you really value is what you miss, not what you have.
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The mightiest love was granted him Love that does not expect to be loved.
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I am not sure that I exist, actually. I am all the writers that I have read, all the people that I have met, all the women that I have loved; all the cities I have visited.
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I cannot sleep unless I am surrounded by books.
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To die for a religion is easier than to live it absolutely.
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Dictatorships foster oppression, dictatorships foster servitude, dictatorships foster cruelty; more abominable is the fact that they foster idiocy.
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I can give you my loneliness, my darkness, the hunger of my heart, I am trying to bribe you with uncertainty, with danger, with defeat.
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Reality is not always probable, or likely.
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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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A writer – and, I believe, generally all persons – must think that whatever happens to him or her is a resource.
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A man sets himself the task of portraying the world. Shortly before he dies he discovers that this patient labyrinth of lines is a drawing of his own face.
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Democracy is an abuse of statistics.
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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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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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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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The fact is that poetry is not the books in the library. Poetry is the encounter of the reader with the book, the discovery of the book.
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