Don’t talk unless you can improve the silence.
JORGE LUIS BORGESAnother school declares that all time has already transpired and that our life is only the crepuscular and no doubt falsified and mutilated memory or reflection of an irrecoverable process.
More Jorge Luis Borges Quotes
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Let others pride themselves about how many pages they have written; I’d rather boast about the ones I’ve read.
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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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A system is nothing more than the subordination of all aspects of the universe to any one of such aspects.
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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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Time forks perpetually toward innumerable futures.
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Do you want to see what human eyes have never seen? Look at the moon. Do you want to hear what ears have never heard? Listen to the bird’s cry. Do you want to touch what hands have never touched? Touch the earth. Verily I say that God is about to create the world.
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The mind was dreaming. The world was its dream.
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I thought that a man can be an enemy of other men, of the moments of other men, but not of a country: not of fireflies, words, gardens, streams of water, sunsets.
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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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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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To be immortal is commonplace; except for man, all creatures are immortal, for they are ignorant of death; what is divine, terrible, incomprehensible, is to know that one is immortal.
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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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Life itself is a quotation.
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You may win your heart’s desire, but in the end you’re cheated of it by death.
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Truth never penetrates an unwilling mind.
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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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Loneliness does not worry me; life is difficult enough, putting up with yourself and with your own habits.
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I think most people are more important than their opinions.
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The central fact of my life has been the existence of words and the possibility of weaving those words into poetry.
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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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The future is inevitable and precise, but it may not occur. God lurks in the gaps.
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Films 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.
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Reality favors symmetry.
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To die for a religion is easier than to live it absolutely.
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The minotaur more than justifies the existence of the labyrinth.
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In all fiction, when a man is faced with alternatives he chooses one at the expense of others.
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