We forget that we are all dead men conversing with dead men.
JORGE LUIS BORGESCensorship is the mother of metaphor.
More Jorge Luis Borges Quotes
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Being an agnostic means all things are possible, even God, even the Holy Trinity. This world is so strange that anything may happen, or may not happen. Being an agnostic makes me live in a larger, a more fantastic kind of world, almost uncanny. It makes me more tolerant.
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To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.
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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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The future is as irrevocable as an inflexible yesterday.
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I cannot sleep unless I am surrounded by books.
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I have always come to life after coming to books.
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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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My undertaking is not difficult, essentially. I should only have to be immortal to carry it out.
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When you reach my age, you realize you couldn’t have done things very much better or much worse than you did them in the first place.
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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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When writers die they become books, which is, after all, not too bad an incarnation.
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Everything touches everything.
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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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Only in the present do things happen.
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I have committed the worst of sins one can commit. I have not been happy.
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