There is an hour of the afternoon when the plain is on the verge of saying something. It never says, or perhaps it says it infinitely, or perhaps we do not understand it, or we understand it and it is untranslatable as music.
JORGE LUIS BORGESReality is not always probable, or likely.
More Jorge Luis Borges Quotes
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The heresies we should fear are those which can be confused with orthodoxy.
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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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Then I reflect that all things happen, happen to one, precisely now. Century follows century, and things happen only in the present. There are countless men in the air, on land and at sea, and all that really happens happens to me.
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When I feel I’m going to write something, then I just am quiet and I try to listen. Then something comes through. And I do what I can in order not to tamper with it.
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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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A poet is a discoverer rather than an inventor.
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He was very religious; he believed that he had a secret pact with God which exempted him from doing good in exchange for prayers and piety.
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To die for a religion is easier than to live it absolutely.
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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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Each thing implies the universe.
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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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The central fact of my life has been the existence of words and the possibility of weaving those words into poetry.
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Man’s memory shapes Its own Eden within.
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Israelites, Christians and Muslims profess immortality, but the veneration they render this world proves they believe only in it, since they destine all other worlds, in infinite number, to be its reward or punishment.
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When you come right down to it, opinions are the most superficial things about anyone.
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