We are our memory, we are that chimerical museum of shifting shapes, that pile of broken mirrors.
JORGE LUIS BORGESI walk slowly, like one who comes from so far away he doesn’t expect to arrive.
More Jorge Luis Borges Quotes
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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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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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I never reread what I’ve written. I’m far too afraid to feel ashamed of what I’ve done.
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The word happiness exists in every language; it is plausible the thing itself exists.
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Death is just infinity closing in.
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The future has no other reality than as present hope, and the past is no more than present memory.
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We accept reality so readily – perhaps because we sense that nothing is real.
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The man who acquires an encyclopedia does not thereby acquire every line, every paragraph, every page, and every illustration; he acquires the possibility of becoming familiar with one and another of those things.
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From my weakness, I drew strength that never left me.
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Creativity is suspended between memory and forgetting.
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Censorship is the mother of metaphor.
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In general, every country has the language it deserves.
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Doubt is one of the names of intelligence.
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Time is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire.
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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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