To die for a religion is easier than to live it absolutely.
JORGE LUIS BORGESThus my life is a flight and I lose everything and everything belongs to oblivion, or to him.
More Jorge Luis Borges Quotes
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I never reread what I’ve written. I’m far too afraid to feel ashamed of what I’ve done.
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How can we manage to illuminate the pathos of our lives?
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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 have committed the worst of sins one can commit. I have not been happy.
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The task of art is to transform what is continuously happening to us, to transform all of these things into symbols, into music, into something which can last in man’s memory. That is our duty. If we don’t fulfill it, we feel unhappy.
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The Falklands thing was a fight between two bald men over a comb.
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I am not sure of anything, I know nothing. Can you imagine that I don’t even know the date of my own death?
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The sea is an idiom I cannot decipher.
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Every novel is an ideal plane inserted into the realm of reality.
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Don’t talk unless you can improve the silence.
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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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In my next life I will try to commit more errors.
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Reality is partial to symmetry and slight anachronisms
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Happy are the beloved and the lovers and those who can live without love.
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Each thing implies the universe.
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Time forks perpetually toward innumerable futures.
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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 heresies we should fear are those which can be confused with orthodoxy.
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The possibilities of the art of combination are not infinite, but they tend to be frightful.
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Only in the present do things happen.
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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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Reality is not always probable, or likely.
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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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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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Time, which despoils castles, enriches verses.
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The worst labyrinth is not that intricate form that can entrap us forever, but a single and precise straight line.
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