Nothing is built on stone; all is built on sand, but we must build as if the sand were stone.
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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When I wake up, I wake to something worse. It’s the astonishment of being myself.
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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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The worst labyrinth is not that intricate form that can entrap us forever, but a single and precise straight line.
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I have always come to life after coming to books.
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Reality is partial to symmetry and slight anachronisms
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I 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.
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The original is unfaithful to the translation.
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Happy are the beloved and the lovers and those who can live without love.
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Each thing implies the universe.
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The earth we inhabit is an error, an incompetent parody. Mirrors and paternity are abominable because they multiply and affirm it.
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Reality may avoid the obligation to be interesting, but hypotheses may not.
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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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The visible universe was an illusion or, more precisely, a sophism. Mirrors and fatherhood are abominable because they multiply it and extend it.
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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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The things that are said in literature are always the same. What is important is the way they are said.
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