Truth never penetrates an unwilling mind.
JORGE LUIS BORGESReality may avoid the obligation to be interesting, but hypotheses may not.
More Jorge Luis Borges Quotes
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The sea is an idiom I cannot decipher.
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A poet is a discoverer rather than an inventor.
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He thought that the rose was to be found in its own eternity and not in his words; and that we may mention or allude to a thing, but not express it.
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Your unforgivable sins do not allow you to see my splendor.
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There’s no need to build a labyrinth when the entire universe is one.
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I cannot walk through the suburbs in the solitude of the night without thinking that the night pleases us because it suppresses idle details, just as our memory does.
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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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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 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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Time can’t be measured in days the way money is measured in pesos and centavos, because all pesos are equal, while every day, perhaps every hour, is different.
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If space is infinite, we may be at any point in space. If time is infinite, we may be at any point in time.
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My books standing there on the shelf do not know that I have written them.
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Beyond my anxiety, beyond this writing, the universe waits, inexhaustible, inviting.
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A book is not an isolated being: it is a relationship, an axis of innumerable relationships
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Soccer is popular because stupidity is popular.
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