We have stopped believing in progress. What progress that is !
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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May Heaven exist, even if my place is Hell.
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No one is a poet from eight to twelve and from two to six. Whoever is a poet is one always, and continually assaulted by poetry.
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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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I believe books will never disappear. It is impossible for it to happen. Of all man’s diverse tools, undoubtedly the most astounding are his books… If books were to disappear, history would disappear. So would man.
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To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.
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A writer needs loneliness, and he gets his share of it. He needs love, and he gets shared and also unshared love. He needs friendship. In fact, he needs the universe. To be a writer is, in a sense, to be a day-dreamer – to be living a kind of double life.
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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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We are our memory, we are that chimerical museum of shifting shapes, that pile of broken mirrors.
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My books standing there on the shelf do not know that I have written them.
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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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We have a very precise image – an image at times shameless – of what we have lost, but we are ignorant of what may follow or replace it.
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Censorship is the mother of metaphor.
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One concept corrupts and confuses the others. I am not speaking of the Evil whose limited sphere is ethics; I am speaking of the infinite.
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What I’m really concerned about is reaching one person. And that person may be myself for all I know.
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Time is the tiger that devours me, but I am that tiger.
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