Death is just infinity closing in.
JORGE LUIS BORGESWhat I’m really concerned about is reaching one person. And that person may be myself for all I know.
More Jorge Luis Borges Quotes
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Everything touches everything.
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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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Any life, however long and complicated it may be, actually consists of a single moment — the moment when a man knows forever more who he is.
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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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Soccer is popular because stupidity is popular.
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No one is anyone, one single immortal man is all men. Like Cornelius Agrippa, I am god, I am hero, I am philosopher, I am demon and I am world, which is a tedious way of saying that I do not exist.
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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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My books standing there on the shelf do not know that I have written them.
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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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If I were asked to name the chief event in my life, I should say my father’s library.
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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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Whoever would undertake some atrocious enterprise should act as if it were already accomplished should impose upon himself a future as irrevocable as the past.
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Time, which despoils castles, enriches verses.
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Don’t talk unless you can improve the silence.
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To be immortal is commonplace; except for man, all creatures are immortal, for they are ignorant of death; what is divine, terrible, incomprehensible, is to know that one is immortal.
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