Reality may avoid the obligation to be interesting, but hypotheses may not.
JORGE LUIS BORGESBeing with you and not being with you is the only way I have to measure time.
More Jorge Luis Borges Quotes
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I believe that in time we will have reached the point where we will deserve to be free of government.
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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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In our dreams (writes Coleridge) images represent the sensations we think they cause; we do not feel horror because we are threatened by a sphinx; we dream of a sphinx in order to explain the horror we feel.
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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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Soccer is popular because stupidity is popular.
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Being with you and not being with you is the only way I have to measure time.
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The heresies we should fear are those which can be confused with orthodoxy.
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Art is endless like a river flowing, passing, yet remaining.
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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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What you really value is what you miss, not what you have.
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Only in the present do things happen.
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A writer should have another lifetime to see if he’s appreciated.
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Death is just infinity closing in.
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I ask of any God, of any gods, that if they give immortality, I hope to be granted oblivion also.
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Everything touches everything.
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