I have sometimes suspected that the only thing that holds no mystery is happiness, because it is its own justification.
JORGE LUIS BORGESIn adultery, there is usually tenderness and self-sacrifice; in murder, courage; in profanation and blasphemy, a certain satanic splendour. Judas elected those offences unvisited by any virtues: abuse of confidence and informing.
More Jorge Luis Borges Quotes
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Time, which despoils castles, enriches verses.
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The future is inevitable and precise, but it may not occur. God lurks in the gaps.
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Democracy is an abuse of statistics.
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Death is just infinity closing in.
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He was very religious; he believed that he had a secret pact with God which exempted him from doing good in exchange for prayers and piety.
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Let others pride themselves about how many pages they have written; I’d rather boast about the ones I’ve read.
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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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So plant your own gardens and decorate your own soul, instead of waiting for someone to bring you flowers.
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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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I have always come to life after coming to books.
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Nothing is built on stone; all is built on sand, but we must build as if the sand were stone.
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A writer’s work is the product of laziness.
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When you reach my age, you realize you couldn’t have done things very much better or much worse than you did them in the first place.
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A poet is a discoverer rather than an inventor.
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Dictatorships foster oppression, dictatorships foster servitude, dictatorships foster cruelty; more abominable is the fact that they foster idiocy.
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