Another school declares that all time has already transpired and that our life is only the crepuscular and no doubt falsified and mutilated memory or reflection of an irrecoverable process.
JORGE LUIS BORGESI believe that in time we will have reached the point where we will deserve to be free of government.
More Jorge Luis Borges Quotes
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To die for a religion is easier than to live it absolutely.
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You may win your heart’s desire, but in the end you’re cheated of it by death.
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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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I might accept immortality, if I had to do it. But I would prefer – if there is any afterlife – to know nothing whatever about Borges, about his experiences in this world.
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Life itself is a quotation.
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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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When you come right down to it, opinions are the most superficial things about anyone.
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Any life, however long and complicated it may be, actually consists of a single moment — the moment when a man knows forever more who he is.
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I cannot sleep unless I am surrounded by books.
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What I’m really concerned about is reaching one person. And that person may be myself for all I know.
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A book is not an isolated being: it is a relationship, an axis of innumerable relationships
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I am not sure of anything, I know nothing. Can you imagine that I don’t even know the date of my own death?
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Many of the characters are fools and they’re always playing tricks on me and treating me badly.
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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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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.
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