I have sometimes suspected that the only thing that holds no mystery is happiness, because it is its own justification.
JORGE LUIS BORGESI 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.
More Jorge Luis Borges Quotes
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We accept reality so readily – perhaps because we sense that nothing is real.
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The sea is an idiom I cannot decipher.
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A writer needs loneliness, and he gets his share of it. He needs love, and he gets shared and also unshared love. He needs friendship. In fact, he needs the universe. To be a writer is, in a sense, to be a day-dreamer – to be living a kind of double life.
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The dictionary is based on the hypothesis — obviously an unproven one — that languages are made up of equivalent synonyms.
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He was very religious; he believed that he had a secret pact with God which exempted him from doing good in exchange for prayers and piety.
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Beyond my anxiety, beyond this writing, the universe waits, inexhaustible, inviting.
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Perhaps the apparent favor of the universe is no more than the crocodile grin of a Doberman breathing hard and about to be hungry?
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The possibilities of the art of combination are not infinite, but they tend to be frightful.
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We have a very precise image – an image at times shameless – of what we have lost, but we are ignorant of what may follow or replace it.
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A book is not an isolated being: it is a relationship, an axis of innumerable relationships
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The truth is that we live out our lives putting off all that can be put off; perhaps we all know deep down that we are immortal and that sooner or later all men will do and know all things.
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You may win your heart’s desire, but in the end you’re cheated of it by death.
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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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We forget that we are all dead men conversing with dead men.
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Man’s memory shapes Its own Eden within.
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