The things that are said in literature are always the same. What is important is the way they are said.
JORGE LUIS BORGESI cannot sleep unless I am surrounded by books.
More Jorge Luis Borges Quotes
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Doubt is one of the names of intelligence.
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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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We are our memory, we are that chimerical museum of shifting shapes, that pile of broken mirrors.
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Censorship is the mother of metaphor.
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I might accept immortality, if I had to do it. But I would prefer – if there is any afterlife – to know nothing whatever about Borges, about his experiences in this world.
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I suppose identity depends on memory. And if my memory is blotted out, then I wonder if I exist – I mean, if I am the same person. Of course, I don’t have to solve that problem. It’s up to God, if any.
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I am almost sure to be blotted out by death, but sometimes I think it is not impossible that I may continue to live in some other manner after my physical death . Or, as Hamlet wonders, what dreams will come when we leave this body?
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Personally, I am a hedonistic reader; I have never read a book merely because it was ancient. I read books for the aesthetic emotions they offer me, and I ignore the commentaries and criticism.
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The mightiest love was granted him Love that does not expect to be loved.
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You may win your heart’s desire, but in the end you’re cheated of it by death.
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I can give you my loneliness, my darkness, the hunger of my heart, I am trying to bribe you with uncertainty, with danger, with defeat.
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When I wake up, I wake to something worse. It’s the astonishment of being myself.
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There’s no need to build a labyrinth when the entire universe is one.
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The dictionary is based on the hypothesis — obviously an unproven one — that languages are made up of equivalent synonyms.
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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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