Reality may avoid the obligation to be interesting, but hypotheses may not.
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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Heaven and hell seem out of proportion to me: the actions of men do not deserve so much.
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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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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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I think most people are more important than their opinions.
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Democracy is an abuse of statistics.
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I think that the reader should enrich what he is reading. He should misunderstand the text; he should change it into something else.
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When you come right down to it, opinions are the most superficial things about anyone.
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Creativity is suspended between memory and forgetting.
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To be immortal is commonplace; except for man, all creatures are immortal, for they are ignorant of death; what is divine, terrible, incomprehensible, is to know that one is immortal.
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There is no point in being overwhelmed by the appalling total of human sufferring; such a total does not exist. Neither poverty nor pain is accumulable.
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The central fact of my life has been the existence of words and the possibility of weaving those words into poetry.
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A man sets himself the task of portraying the world. Shortly before he dies he discovers that this patient labyrinth of lines is a drawing of his own face.
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What I’m really concerned about is reaching one person. And that person may be myself for all I know.
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We accept reality so readily – perhaps because we sense that nothing is real.
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The mightiest love was granted him Love that does not expect to be loved.
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