There’s no need to build a labyrinth when the entire universe is one.
JORGE LUIS BORGES- 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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It’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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There’s no need to build a labyrinth when the entire universe is one.
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You can’t measure time by days, the way you measure money by dollars and cents, because dollars are all the same while every day is different and maybe every hour as well.
JORGE LUIS BORGESYou can’t measure time by days, the way you measure money by dollars and cents, because dollars are all the same while every day is different and maybe every hour as well.
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To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.
JORGE LUIS BORGESTo fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.
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Only in the present do things happen.
JORGE LUIS BORGESOnly in the present do things happen.
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The things that are said in literature are always the same. What is important is the way they are said.
JORGE LUIS BORGESThe things that are said in literature are always the same. What is important is the way they are said.
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If I were asked to name the chief event in my life, I should say my father’s library.
JORGE LUIS BORGESIf I were asked to name the chief event in my life, I should say my father’s library.
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The truth is that we live out our lives putting off all that can be put off; perhaps we all know deep down that we are immortal and that sooner or later all men will do and know all things.
JORGE LUIS BORGESThe truth is that we live out our lives putting off all that can be put off; perhaps we all know deep down that we are immortal and that sooner or later all men will do and know all things.
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What will die with me when I die, what pathetic or fragile form will the world lose?
JORGE LUIS BORGESWhat will die with me when I die, what pathetic or fragile form will the world lose?
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Everything touches everything.
JORGE LUIS BORGESEverything touches everything.
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Death is just infinity closing in.
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The visible universe was an illusion or, more precisely, a sophism. Mirrors and fatherhood are abominable because they multiply it and extend it.
JORGE LUIS BORGESThe visible universe was an illusion or, more precisely, a sophism. Mirrors and fatherhood are abominable because they multiply it and extend it.
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To say good-bye is to deny separation; it is to say Today we play at going our own ways, but we’ll see each other tomorrow. Men invented farewells because they somehow knew themselves to be immortal, even while seeing themselves as contingent and ephemeral.
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Time is the tiger that devours me, but I am that tiger.
JORGE LUIS BORGESTime is the tiger that devours me, but I am that tiger.
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A poet is a discoverer rather than an inventor.
JORGE LUIS BORGESA poet is a discoverer rather than an inventor.
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Beyond my anxiety, beyond this writing, the universe waits, inexhaustible, inviting.
JORGE LUIS BORGESBeyond my anxiety, beyond this writing, the universe waits, inexhaustible, inviting.
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My undertaking is not difficult, essentially. I should only have to be immortal to carry it out.
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