I do not write for a select minority, which means nothing to me, nor for that adulated platonic entity known as ‘The Masses’. Both abstractions, so dear to the demagogue, I disbelieve in. I write for myself and for my friends, and I write to ease the passing of time.
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More Jorge Luis Borges Quotes
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Reality may avoid the obligation to be interesting, but hypotheses may not.
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The mightiest love was granted him Love that does not expect to be loved.
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For me, beauty is a physical sensation, something we feel with our whole body. It is not the result of judgement. We do not arrive at it by way of rules. We either feel beauty or we don’t.
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Time forks perpetually toward innumerable futures.
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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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Reality is not always probable, or likely.
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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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Every man should be capable of all ideas.
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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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He consorted with prostitutes and poets and with persons even worse.
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We forget that we are all dead men conversing with dead men.
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Reality is partial to symmetry and slight anachronisms
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There is nothing in the world that is not mysterious, but the mystery is more evident in certain things than in others: in the sea, in the eyes of the elders, in the color yellow, and in music.
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We accept reality so readily – perhaps because we sense that nothing is real.
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How can we manage to illuminate the pathos of our lives?
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What will die with me when I die, what pathetic or fragile form will the world lose?
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Let others pride themselves about how many pages they have written; I’d rather boast about the ones I’ve read.
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We have stopped believing in progress. What progress that is !
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The flattery of posterity is not worth much more than contemporary flattery, which is worth nothing.
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Poetry remembers that it was an oral art before it was a written art.
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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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When I wake up, I wake to something worse. It’s the astonishment of being myself.
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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 word happiness exists in every language; it is plausible the thing itself exists.
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Life itself is a quotation.
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Do you want to see what human eyes have never seen? Look at the moon. Do you want to hear what ears have never heard? Listen to the bird’s cry. Do you want to touch what hands have never touched? Touch the earth. Verily I say that God is about to create the world.
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