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 BORGESHe thought that the rose was to be found in its own eternity and not in his words; and that we may mention or allude to a thing, but not express it.
More Jorge Luis Borges Quotes
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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.
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Censorship is the mother of metaphor.
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May Heaven exist, even if my place is Hell.
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Time, which despoils castles, enriches verses.
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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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What will die with me when I die, what pathetic or fragile form will the world lose?
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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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I saw all the mirrors on earth and none of them reflected me.
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The dictionary is based on the hypothesis — obviously an unproven one — that languages are made up of equivalent synonyms.
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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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Dictatorships foster oppression, dictatorships foster servitude, dictatorships foster cruelty; more abominable is the fact that they foster idiocy.
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I am almost sure to be blotted out by death, but sometimes I think it is not impossible that I may continue to live in some other manner after my physical death . Or, as Hamlet wonders, what dreams will come when we leave this body?
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In Spanish it is very difficult to make things flow, because words are over-long. But in English, you have light words.
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A system is nothing more than the subordination of all aspects of the universe to any one of such aspects.
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In adultery, there is usually tenderness and self-sacrifice; in murder, courage; in profanation and blasphemy, a certain satanic splendour. Judas elected those offences unvisited by any virtues: abuse of confidence and informing.
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