Time forks perpetually toward innumerable futures.
JORGE LUIS BORGESNo one is a poet from eight to twelve and from two to six. Whoever is a poet is one always, and continually assaulted by poetry.
More Jorge Luis Borges Quotes
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Every man should be capable of all ideas.
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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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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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The things that are said in literature are always the same. What is important is the way they are said.
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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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In general, every country has the language it deserves.
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He was very religious; he believed that he had a secret pact with God which exempted him from doing good in exchange for prayers and piety.
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The future is inevitable and precise, but it may not occur. God lurks in the gaps.
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The mightiest love was granted him Love that does not expect to be loved.
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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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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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Many of the characters are fools and they’re always playing tricks on me and treating me badly.
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I have sometimes suspected that the only thing that holds no mystery is happiness, because it is its own justification.
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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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Each thing implies the universe.
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The future has no other reality than as present hope, and the past is no more than present memory.
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You have wakened not out of sleep, but into a prior dream, and that dream lies within another, and so on, to infinity, which is the number of grains of sand. The path that you are to take is endless, and you will die before you have truly awakened.
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To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.
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Everything touches everything.
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Loneliness does not worry me; life is difficult enough, putting up with yourself and with your own habits.
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Soccer is popular because stupidity is popular.
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We have stopped believing in progress. What progress that is !
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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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Being with you and not being with you is the only way I have to measure time.
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I believe that in time we will have reached the point where we will deserve to be free of government.
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Chang Tzu tells us of a persevering man who after three laborious years mastered the art of dragon-slaying. For the rest of his days, he had not a single opportunity to test his skills.
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