I cannot sleep unless I am surrounded by books.
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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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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Time is the tiger that devours me, but I am that tiger.
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Time forks perpetually toward innumerable futures.
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To be immortal is commonplace; except for man, all creatures are immortal, for they are ignorant of death; what is divine, terrible, incomprehensible, is to know that one is immortal.
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One concept corrupts and confuses the others. I am not speaking of the Evil whose limited sphere is ethics; I am speaking of the infinite.
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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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We forget that we are all dead men conversing with dead men.
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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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The future is as irrevocable as an inflexible yesterday.
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My books standing there on the shelf do not know that I have written them.
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The mind was dreaming. The world was its dream.
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In Spanish it is very difficult to make things flow, because words are over-long. But in English, you have light words.
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I had always thought of Paradise / In form and image as a library.
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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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To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.
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