Time is the tiger that devours me, but I am that tiger.
JORGE LUIS BORGESTime forks perpetually toward innumerable futures.
More Jorge Luis Borges Quotes
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The earth we inhabit is an error, an incompetent parody. Mirrors and paternity are abominable because they multiply and affirm it.
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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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It is clear that there is no classification of the Universe that is not arbitrary and full of conjectures. The reason for this is very simple: we do not know what kind of thing the universe is.
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May Heaven exist, even if my place is Hell.
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Censorship is the mother of metaphor.
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For me, beauty is a physical sensation, something we feel with our whole body. It is not the result of judgement. We do not arrive at it by way of rules. We either feel beauty or we don’t.
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I foresee that man will resign himself each day to new abominations, and soon that only bandits and soldiers will be left.
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He thought that the rose was to be found in its own eternity and not in his words; and that we may mention or allude to a thing, but not express it.
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How can we manage to illuminate the pathos of our lives?
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When writers die they become books, which is, after all, not too bad an incarnation.
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In general, every country has the language it deserves.
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There is nothing in the world that is not mysterious, but the mystery is more evident in certain things than in others: in the sea, in the eyes of the elders, in the color yellow, and in music.
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I have preferred to teach my students not English literature but my love for certain authors, or, even better, certain pages, or even better than that, certain lines. One falls in love with a line, then with a page, then with an author. Well, why not? It is a beautiful process.
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Creativity is suspended between memory and forgetting.
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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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Writing long books is a laborious and impoverishing act of foolishness: expanding in five hundred pages an idea that could be perfectly explained in a few minutes. A better procedure is to pretend that those books already exist and to offer a summary, a commentary.
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When you come right down to it, opinions are the most superficial things about anyone.
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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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Truth never penetrates an unwilling mind.
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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.
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There is no point in being overwhelmed by the appalling total of human sufferring; such a total does not exist. Neither poverty nor pain is accumulable.
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The original is unfaithful to the translation.
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I gazed at every mirror on the planet, not one gave back my reflection.
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From my weakness, I drew strength that never left me.
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While we are asleep in this world, we are awake in another one.
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Reality is partial to symmetry and slight anachronisms
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