I gazed at every mirror on the planet, not one gave back my reflection.
JORGE LUIS BORGESTime can’t be measured in days the way money is measured in pesos and centavos, because all pesos are equal, while every day, perhaps every hour, is different.
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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Time is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire.
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Reality favors symmetry.
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Time is the tiger that devours me, but I am that tiger.
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The possibilities of the art of combination are not infinite, but they tend to be frightful.
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Doubt is one of the names of intelligence.
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Censorship is the mother of metaphor.
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I have sometimes suspected that the only thing that holds no mystery is happiness, because it is its own justification.
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You can’t measure time by days, the way you measure money by dollars and cents, because dollars are all the same while every day is different and maybe every hour as well.
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To say good-bye is to deny separation; it is to say Today we play at going our own ways, but we’ll see each other tomorrow. Men invented farewells because they somehow knew themselves to be immortal, even while seeing themselves as contingent and ephemeral.
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Perhaps the apparent favor of the universe is no more than the crocodile grin of a Doberman breathing hard and about to be hungry?
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He consorted with prostitutes and poets and with persons even worse.
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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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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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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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