The earth we inhabit is an error, an incompetent parody. Mirrors and paternity are abominable because they multiply and affirm it.
JORGE LUIS BORGESI have committed the worst of sins one can commit. I have not been happy.
More Jorge Luis Borges Quotes
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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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I think of reading a book as no less an experience than travelling or falling in love.
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Everything touches everything.
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When one confesses to an act, one ceases to be an actor in it and becomes its witness, becomes a man that observes and narrates it and no longer the man that performed it.
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The possibilities of the art of combination are not infinite, but they tend to be frightful.
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Being an agnostic means all things are possible, even God, even the Holy Trinity. This world is so strange that anything may happen, or may not happen. Being an agnostic makes me live in a larger, a more fantastic kind of world, almost uncanny. It makes me more tolerant.
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My undertaking is not difficult, essentially. I should only have to be immortal to carry it out.
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Dictatorships foster oppression, dictatorships foster servitude, dictatorships foster cruelty; more abominable is the fact that they foster idiocy.
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Man’s memory shapes Its own Eden within.
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Time is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire.
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The future is inevitable and precise, but it may not occur. God lurks in the gaps.
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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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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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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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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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