The future is as irrevocable as an inflexible yesterday.
JORGE LUIS BORGESMy books standing there on the shelf do not know that I have written them.
More Jorge Luis Borges Quotes
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The future has no other reality than as present hope, and the past is no more than present memory.
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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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Time, which despoils castles, enriches verses.
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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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Life itself is a quotation.
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In my next life I will try to commit more errors.
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A book is not an isolated being: it is a relationship, an axis of innumerable relationships
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When you come right down to it, opinions are the most superficial things about anyone.
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Each thing implies the universe.
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When I wake up, I wake to something worse. It’s the astonishment of being myself.
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I cannot sleep unless I am surrounded by books.
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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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The flattery of posterity is not worth much more than contemporary flattery, which is worth nothing.
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You can’t measure time by days, the way you measure money by dollars and cents, because dollars are all the same while every day is different and maybe every hour as well.
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Beyond my anxiety, beyond this writing, the universe waits, inexhaustible, inviting.
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