Don’t talk unless you can improve the silence.
JORGE LUIS BORGESTo fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.
More Jorge Luis Borges Quotes
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Nothing is built on stone; all is built on sand, but we must build as if the sand were stone.
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We have stopped believing in progress. What progress that is !
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The minotaur more than justifies the existence of the labyrinth.
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Each thing implies the universe.
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What will die with me when I die, what pathetic or fragile form will the world lose?
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We forget that we are all dead men conversing with dead men.
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A poet is a discoverer rather than an inventor.
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The things that are said in literature are always the same. What is important is the way they are said.
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I thought that a man can be an enemy of other men, of the moments of other men, but not of a country: not of fireflies, words, gardens, streams of water, sunsets.
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Democracy is an abuse of statistics.
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I would rather like to think of God as being a kind of adventurer – even as Wells thought about him – or perhaps as something within us making for some unknown purpose.
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The original is unfaithful to the translation.
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Reality is partial to symmetry and slight anachronisms
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All that happens to us, including our humiliations, our misfortunes, our embarrassments, all is given to us as raw material, as clay, so that we may shape our art.
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Reality favors symmetry.
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