The future has no other reality than as present hope, and the past is no more than present memory.
JORGE LUIS BORGESTo die for a religion is easier than to live it absolutely.
More Jorge Luis Borges Quotes
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Soccer is popular because stupidity is popular.
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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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Heaven and hell seem out of proportion to me: the actions of men do not deserve so much.
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My books standing there on the shelf do not know that I have written them.
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A poet is a discoverer rather than an inventor.
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Israelites, Christians and Muslims profess immortality, but the veneration they render this world proves they believe only in it, since they destine all other worlds, in infinite number, to be its reward or punishment.
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How can we manage to illuminate the pathos of our lives?
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Your unforgivable sins do not allow you to see my splendor.
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I think most people are more important than their opinions.
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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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A writer – and, I believe, generally all persons – must think that whatever happens to him or her is a resource.
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A system is nothing more than the subordination of all aspects of the universe to any one of such aspects.
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It means much to have loved, to have been happy, to have laid my hand on the living Garden, even for a day.
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Beyond my anxiety, beyond this writing, the universe waits, inexhaustible, inviting.
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I think that the reader should enrich what he is reading. He should misunderstand the text; he should change it into something else.
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