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.
JORGE LUIS BORGESDo 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.
More Jorge Luis Borges Quotes
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Every novel is an ideal plane inserted into the realm of reality.
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Soccer is popular because stupidity is popular.
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May Heaven exist, even if my place is Hell.
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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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You may win your heart’s desire, but in the end you’re cheated of it by death.
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No one is anyone, one single immortal man is all men. Like Cornelius Agrippa, I am god, I am hero, I am philosopher, I am demon and I am world, which is a tedious way of saying that I do not exist.
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We forget that we are all dead men conversing with dead men.
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In all fiction, when a man is faced with alternatives he chooses one at the expense of others.
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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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There’s no need to build a labyrinth when the entire universe is one.
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The possibilities of the art of combination are not infinite, but they tend to be frightful.
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Time forks perpetually toward innumerable futures.
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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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Time is the tiger that devours me, but I am that tiger.
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