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Jorge Luis Borges170 quotes“You have wakened not out of sleep, but into a prior dream, and that dream lies within another, and so on, to infinity, which is the number of grains of sand. The path that you are to take is endless, and you will die before you have truly awakened.”
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Israelites, Christians and Muslims profess immortality, but the veneration they render this world proves they believe only in it, since they destine all other worlds, in infinite number, to be its reward or punishment.
Jorge Luis BorgesJorge Luis Borges Soccer is popular because stupidity is popular.
Jorge Luis BorgesJorge Luis Borges Happy are the beloved and the lovers and those who can live without love.
Jorge Luis BorgesJorge Luis Borges 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.
Jorge Luis BorgesJorge Luis Borges He consorted with prostitutes and poets and with persons even worse.
Jorge Luis BorgesJorge Luis Borges I foresee that man will resign himself each day to new abominations, and soon that only bandits and soldiers will be left.
Jorge Luis BorgesJorge Luis Borges No one is a poet from eight to twelve and from two to six. Whoever is a poet is one always, and continually assaulted by poetry.
Jorge Luis BorgesJorge Luis Borges Reality is partial to symmetry and slight anachronisms
Jorge Luis BorgesJorge Luis Borges A poet is a discoverer rather than an inventor.
Jorge Luis BorgesJorge Luis Borges Many of the characters are fools and they’re always playing tricks on me and treating me badly.
Jorge Luis BorgesJorge Luis Borges Time forks perpetually toward innumerable futures.
Jorge Luis BorgesJorge Luis Borges Let others pride themselves about how many pages they have written; I’d rather boast about the ones I’ve read.
Jorge Luis BorgesJorge Luis Borges A book is not an isolated being: it is a relationship, an axis of innumerable relationships
Jorge Luis BorgesJorge Luis Borges Censorship is the mother of metaphor.
Jorge Luis BorgesJorge Luis Borges The mightiest love was granted him Love that does not expect to be loved.
Jorge Luis BorgesJorge Luis Borges I think that the reader should enrich what he is reading. He should misunderstand the text; he should change it into something else.
Jorge Luis BorgesJorge Luis Borges
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