I never reread what I’ve written. I’m far too afraid to feel ashamed of what I’ve done.
JORGE LUIS BORGESMay Heaven exist, even if my place is Hell.
More Jorge Luis Borges Quotes
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Death is just infinity closing in.
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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.
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No one is a poet from eight to twelve and from two to six. Whoever is a poet is one always, and continually assaulted by poetry.
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I believe books will never disappear. It is impossible for it to happen. Of all man’s diverse tools, undoubtedly the most astounding are his books… If books were to disappear, history would disappear. So would man.
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When you come right down to it, opinions are the most superficial things about anyone.
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Chang Tzu tells us of a persevering man who after three laborious years mastered the art of dragon-slaying. For the rest of his days, he had not a single opportunity to test his skills.
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Perhaps the apparent favor of the universe is no more than the crocodile grin of a Doberman breathing hard and about to be hungry?
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Reality may avoid the obligation to be interesting, but hypotheses may not.
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Reality is partial to symmetry and slight anachronisms
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What a writer wants to do is not what he does.
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Time is the substance from which I am made. Time is a river which carries me along, but I am the river; it is a tiger that devours me, but I am the tiger; it is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire.
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The earth we inhabit is an error, an incompetent parody. Mirrors and paternity are abominable because they multiply and affirm it.
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Democracy is an abuse of statistics.
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The Falklands thing was a fight between two bald men over a comb.
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I gazed at every mirror on the planet, not one gave back my reflection.
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