Democracy is an abuse of statistics.
JORGE LUIS BORGESIf I were asked to name the chief event in my life, I should say my father’s library.
More Jorge Luis Borges Quotes
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I have committed the worst of sins one can commit. I have not been happy.
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We have stopped believing in progress. What progress that is !
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When I feel I’m going to write something, then I just am quiet and I try to listen. Then something comes through. And I do what I can in order not to tamper with it.
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To die for a religion is easier than to live it absolutely.
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Reality is partial to symmetry and slight anachronisms
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Everything touches everything.
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We forget that we are all dead men conversing with dead men.
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Blindness has not been for me a total misfortune; it should not be seen in a pathetic way. It should be seen as a way of life: one of the styles of living.
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It means much to have loved, to have been happy, to have laid my hand on the living Garden, even for a day.
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The 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.
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I foresee that man will resign himself each day to new abominations, and soon that only bandits and soldiers will be left.
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When I wake up, I wake to something worse. It’s the astonishment of being myself.
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The task of art is to transform what is continuously happening to us, to transform all of these things into symbols, into music, into something which can last in man’s memory. That is our duty. If we don’t fulfill it, we feel unhappy.
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I gazed at every mirror on the planet, not one gave back my reflection.
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The flattery of posterity is not worth much more than contemporary flattery, which is worth nothing.
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