A book is not an isolated being: it is a relationship, an axis of innumerable relationships
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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A man sets himself the task of portraying the world. Shortly before he dies he discovers that this patient labyrinth of lines is a drawing of his own face.
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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 flattery of posterity is not worth much more than contemporary flattery, which is worth nothing.
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We have a very precise image – an image at times shameless – of what we have lost, but we are ignorant of what may follow or replace it.
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We are our memory, we are that chimerical museum of shifting shapes, that pile of broken mirrors.
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I have committed the worst of sins one can commit. I have not been happy.
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One concept corrupts and confuses the others. I am not speaking of the Evil whose limited sphere is ethics; I am speaking of the infinite.
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The minotaur more than justifies the existence of the labyrinth.
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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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Every novel is an ideal plane inserted into the realm of reality.
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The mind was dreaming. The world was its dream.
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The future has no other reality than as present hope, and the past is no more than present memory.
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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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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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Don’t talk unless you can improve the silence.
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