Truth never penetrates an unwilling mind.
JORGE LUIS BORGESEvery man should be capable of all ideas.
More Jorge Luis Borges Quotes
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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 writer – and, I believe, generally all persons – must think that whatever happens to him or her is a resource.
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Art is very mysterious. I wonder if you can really do any damage to art. I think that when we’re writing, something comes through or should come through, in spite of our theories. So theories are not really important.
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If space is infinite, we may be at any point in space. If time is infinite, we may be at any point in time.
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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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He consorted with prostitutes and poets and with persons even worse.
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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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In general, every country has the language it deserves.
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The future is inevitable and precise, but it may not occur. God lurks in the gaps.
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Poets, like the blind, can see in the dark.
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We are our memory, we are that chimerical museum of shifting shapes, that pile of broken mirrors.
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Everything touches everything.
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Every novel is an ideal plane inserted into the realm of reality.
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The flattery of posterity is not worth much more than contemporary flattery, which is worth nothing.
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The sea is an idiom I cannot decipher.
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