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.
JORGE LUIS BORGESThe flattery of posterity is not worth much more than contemporary flattery, which is worth nothing.
More Jorge Luis Borges Quotes
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So plant your own gardens and decorate your own soul, instead of waiting for someone to bring you flowers.
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We accept reality so readily – perhaps because we sense that nothing is real.
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Democracy is an abuse of statistics.
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The word happiness exists in every language; it is plausible the thing itself exists.
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He consorted with prostitutes and poets and with persons even worse.
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It is clear that there is no classification of the Universe that is not arbitrary and full of conjectures. The reason for this is very simple: we do not know what kind of thing the universe is.
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In all fiction, when a man is faced with alternatives he chooses one at the expense of others.
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I saw all the mirrors on earth and none of them reflected me.
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There is nothing in the world that is not mysterious, but the mystery is more evident in certain things than in others: in the sea, in the eyes of the elders, in the color yellow, and in music.
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The sea is an idiom I cannot decipher.
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Writing long books is a laborious and impoverishing act of foolishness: expanding in five hundred pages an idea that could be perfectly explained in a few minutes. A better procedure is to pretend that those books already exist and to offer a summary, a commentary.
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When you come right down to it, opinions are the most superficial things about anyone.
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It also occurred to him that throughout history, humankind has told two stories: the story of a lost ship sailing the Mediterranean seas in quest of a beloved isle, and the story of a god who allows himself to be crucified on Golgotha.
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When you reach my age, you realize you couldn’t have done things very much better or much worse than you did them in the first place.
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Beyond my anxiety, beyond this writing, the universe waits, inexhaustible, inviting.
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