Doubt is one of the names of intelligence.
JORGE LUIS BORGES
Reality is partial to symmetry and slight anachronisms
More Jorge Luis Borges Quotes
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Doubt is one of the names of intelligence.
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Time, which despoils castles, enriches verses.
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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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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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Each thing implies the universe.
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The future is inevitable and precise, but it may not occur. God lurks in the gaps.
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I think that the reader should enrich what he is reading. He should misunderstand the text; he should change it into something else.
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The minotaur more than justifies the existence of the labyrinth.
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Every novel is an ideal plane inserted into the realm of reality.
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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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We forget that we are all dead men conversing with dead men.
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The flattery of posterity is not worth much more than contemporary flattery, which is worth nothing.
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A system is nothing more than the subordination of all aspects of the universe to any one of such aspects.
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In adultery, there is usually tenderness and self-sacrifice; in murder, courage; in profanation and blasphemy, a certain satanic splendour. Judas elected those offences unvisited by any virtues: abuse of confidence and informing.
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Death is just infinity closing in.
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What I’m really concerned about is reaching one person. And that person may be myself for all I know.
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