The mind was dreaming. The world was its dream.
JORGE LUIS BORGESWe forget that we are all dead men conversing with dead men.
More Jorge Luis Borges Quotes
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If space is infinite, we may be at any point in space. If time is infinite, we may be at any point in time.
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It means much to have loved, to have been happy, to have laid my hand on the living Garden, even for a day.
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I believe books will never disappear. It is impossible for it to happen. Of all man’s diverse tools, undoubtedly the most astounding are his books… If books were to disappear, history would disappear. So would man.
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The things that are said in literature are always the same. What is important is the way they are said.
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It is clear that there is no classification of the Universe that is not arbitrary and full of conjectures. The reason for this is very simple: we do not know what kind of thing the universe is.
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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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Happy are the beloved and the lovers and those who can live without love.
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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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Blindness has not been for me a total misfortune; it should not be seen in a pathetic way. It should be seen as a way of life: one of the styles of living.
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Time forks perpetually toward innumerable futures.
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He consorted with prostitutes and poets and with persons even worse.
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When I write, I do it urged by an intimate necessity. I don’t have in mind an exclusive public, or a public of multitudes, I don’t think in either thing. I think about expressing what I want to say. I try to do it in the simplest way possible.
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I might accept immortality, if I had to do it. But I would prefer – if there is any afterlife – to know nothing whatever about Borges, about his experiences in this world.
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Loneliness does not worry me; life is difficult enough, putting up with yourself and with your own habits.
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We have stopped believing in progress. What progress that is !
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