The future has no other reality than as present hope, and the past is no more than present memory.
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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To arrange a library is to practice in a quiet and modest way the art of criticism.
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I gazed at every mirror on the planet, not one gave back my reflection.
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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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Every man should be capable of all ideas.
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The flattery of posterity is not worth much more than contemporary flattery, which is worth nothing.
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There is no point in being overwhelmed by the appalling total of human sufferring; such a total does not exist. Neither poverty nor pain is accumulable.
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There’s no need to build a labyrinth when the entire universe is one.
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I foresee that man will resign himself each day to new abominations, and soon that only bandits and soldiers will be left.
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A writer’s work is the product of laziness.
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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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Thus my life is a flight and I lose everything and everything belongs to oblivion, or to him.
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Time is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire.
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What will die with me when I die, what pathetic or fragile form will the world lose?
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In general, every country has the language it deserves.
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The central fact of my life has been the existence of words and the possibility of weaving those words into poetry.
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