Democracy is an abuse of statistics.
JORGE LUIS BORGESI gazed at every mirror on the planet, not one gave back my reflection.
More Jorge Luis Borges Quotes
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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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I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.
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I gazed at every mirror on the planet, not one gave back my reflection.
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The word happiness exists in every language; it is plausible the thing itself exists.
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I believe books will never disappear. It is impossible for it to happen. Of all man’s diverse tools, undoubtedly the most astounding are his books… If books were to disappear, history would disappear. So would man.
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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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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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I walk slowly, like one who comes from so far away he doesn’t expect to arrive.
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Everything touches everything.
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When I write, I do it urged by an intimate necessity. I don’t have in mind an exclusive public, or a public of multitudes, I don’t think in either thing. I think about expressing what I want to say. I try to do it in the simplest way possible.
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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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There’s no need to build a labyrinth when the entire universe is one.
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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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Time is the tiger that devours me, but I am that tiger.
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May Heaven exist, even if my place is Hell.
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Art is very mysterious. I wonder if you can really do any damage to art. I think that when we’re writing, something comes through or should come through, in spite of our theories. So theories are not really important.
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A writer – and, I believe, generally all persons – must think that whatever happens to him or her is a resource.
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Heaven and hell seem out of proportion to me: the actions of men do not deserve so much.
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The possibilities of the art of combination are not infinite, but they tend to be frightful.
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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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Man’s memory shapes Its own Eden within.
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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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I am not sure that I exist, actually. I am all the writers that I have read, all the people that I have met, all the women that I have loved; all the cities I have visited.
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My books standing there on the shelf do not know that I have written them.
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The future is inevitable and precise, but it may not occur. God lurks in the gaps.
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Reality may avoid the obligation to be interesting, but hypotheses may not.
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