When one confesses to an act, one ceases to be an actor in it and becomes its witness, becomes a man that observes and narrates it and no longer the man that performed it.
JORGE LUIS BORGESThe man who acquires an encyclopedia does not thereby acquire every line, every paragraph, every page, and every illustration; he acquires the possibility of becoming familiar with one and another of those things.
More Jorge Luis Borges Quotes
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A writer – and, I believe, generally all persons – must think that whatever happens to him or her is a resource.
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From my weakness, I drew strength that never left me.
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There’s no need to build a labyrinth when the entire universe is one.
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May Heaven exist, even if my place is Hell.
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Democracy is an abuse of statistics.
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The original is unfaithful to the translation.
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Every novel is an ideal plane inserted into the realm of reality.
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Whoever would undertake some atrocious enterprise should act as if it were already accomplished should impose upon himself a future as irrevocable as the past.
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I saw all the mirrors on earth and none of them reflected me.
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For me, beauty is a physical sensation, something we feel with our whole body. It is not the result of judgement. We do not arrive at it by way of rules. We either feel beauty or we don’t.
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I suppose identity depends on memory. And if my memory is blotted out, then I wonder if I exist – I mean, if I am the same person. Of course, I don’t have to solve that problem. It’s up to God, if any.
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Everything touches everything.
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Don’t talk unless you can improve the silence.
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The future is as irrevocable as an inflexible yesterday.
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Time is the tiger that devours me, but I am that tiger.
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It’s a shame that we have to choose between two such second-rate countries as the USSR and the USA.
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All that happens to us, including our humiliations, our misfortunes, our embarrassments, all is given to us as raw material, as clay, so that we may shape our art.
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How can we manage to illuminate the pathos of our lives?
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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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I had always thought of Paradise / In form and image as a library.
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I gazed at every mirror on the planet, not one gave back my reflection.
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Each thing implies the universe.
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Nothing is built on stone; all is built on sand, but we must build as if the sand were stone.
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Being an agnostic means all things are possible, even God, even the Holy Trinity. This world is so strange that anything may happen, or may not happen. Being an agnostic makes me live in a larger, a more fantastic kind of world, almost uncanny. It makes me more tolerant.
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Doubt is one of the names of intelligence.
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Man’s memory shapes Its own Eden within.
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