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.
JORGE LUIS BORGESSoccer is popular because stupidity is popular.
More Jorge Luis Borges Quotes
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Thus my life is a flight and I lose everything and everything belongs to oblivion, or to him.
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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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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 cannot walk through the suburbs in the solitude of the night without thinking that the night pleases us because it suppresses idle details, just as our memory does.
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I do not write for a select minority, which means nothing to me, nor for that adulated platonic entity known as ‘The Masses’. Both abstractions, so dear to the demagogue, I disbelieve in. I write for myself and for my friends, and I write to ease the passing of time.
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Nothing is built on stone; all is built on sand, but we must build as if the sand were stone.
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I think most people are more important than their opinions.
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A writer needs loneliness, and he gets his share of it. He needs love, and he gets shared and also unshared love. He needs friendship. In fact, he needs the universe. To be a writer is, in a sense, to be a day-dreamer – to be living a kind of double life.
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In our dreams (writes Coleridge) images represent the sensations we think they cause; we do not feel horror because we are threatened by a sphinx; we dream of a sphinx in order to explain the horror we feel.
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All that happens to us, including our humiliations, our misfortunes, our embarrassments, all is given to us as raw material, as clay, so that we may shape our art.
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Whoever would undertake some atrocious enterprise should act as if it were already accomplished should impose upon himself a future as irrevocable as the past.
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The flattery of posterity is not worth much more than contemporary flattery, which is worth nothing.
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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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The visible universe was an illusion or, more precisely, a sophism. Mirrors and fatherhood are abominable because they multiply it and extend it.
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Blindness has not been for me a total misfortune; it should not be seen in a pathetic way. It should be seen as a way of life: one of the styles of living.
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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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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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The sea is an idiom I cannot decipher.
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It means much to have loved, to have been happy, to have laid my hand on the living Garden, even for a day.
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The future is inevitable and precise, but it may not occur. God lurks in the gaps.
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A writer should have another lifetime to see if he’s appreciated.
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Art is endless like a river flowing, passing, yet remaining.
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Democracy is an abuse of statistics.
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Reality may avoid the obligation to be interesting, but hypotheses may not.
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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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I can give you my loneliness, my darkness, the hunger of my heart, I am trying to bribe you with uncertainty, with danger, with defeat.
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