The things that are said in literature are always the same. What is important is the way they are said.
JORGE LUIS BORGESWhoever would undertake some atrocious enterprise should act as if it were already accomplished should impose upon himself a future as irrevocable as the past.
More Jorge Luis Borges Quotes
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Only in the present do things happen.
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Life itself is a quotation.
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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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A poet is a discoverer rather than an inventor.
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Another 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.
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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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Being with you and not being with you is the only way I have to measure time.
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The future is as irrevocable as an inflexible yesterday.
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To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.
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The possibilities of the art of combination are not infinite, but they tend to be frightful.
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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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No one is anyone, one single immortal man is all men. Like Cornelius Agrippa, I am god, I am hero, I am philosopher, I am demon and I am world, which is a tedious way of saying that I do not exist.
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In adultery, there is usually tenderness and self-sacrifice; in murder, courage; in profanation and blasphemy, a certain satanic splendour. Judas elected those offences unvisited by any virtues: abuse of confidence and informing.
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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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To arrange a library is to practice in a quiet and modest way the art of criticism.
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