When you come right down to it, opinions are the most superficial things about anyone.
JORGE LUIS BORGESIt’s a shame that we have to choose between two such second-rate countries as the USSR and the USA.
More Jorge Luis Borges Quotes
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How can we manage to illuminate the pathos of our lives?
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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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Soccer is popular because stupidity is popular.
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In my next life I will try to commit more errors.
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Democracy is an abuse of statistics.
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If I were asked to name the chief event in my life, I should say my father’s library.
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The minotaur more than justifies the existence of the labyrinth.
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Doubt is one of the names of intelligence.
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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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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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I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.
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Creativity is suspended between memory and forgetting.
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I have always come to life after coming to books.
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The Falklands thing was a fight between two bald men over a comb.
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My books standing there on the shelf do not know that I have written them.
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