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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 be immortal is commonplace; except for man, all creatures are immortal, for they are ignorant of death; what is divine, terrible, incomprehensible, is to know that one is immortal.
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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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Chang Tzu tells us of a persevering man who after three laborious years mastered the art of dragon-slaying. For the rest of his days, he had not a single opportunity to test his skills.
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Reality favors symmetry.
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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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Whoever would undertake some atrocious enterprise should act as if it were already accomplished should impose upon himself a future as irrevocable as the past.
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When you come right down to it, opinions are the most superficial things about anyone.
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The fact is that poetry is not the books in the library. Poetry is the encounter of the reader with the book, the discovery of the book.
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May Heaven exist, even if my place is Hell.
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We forget that we are all dead men conversing with dead men.
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A poet is a discoverer rather than an inventor.
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Reality is partial to symmetry and slight anachronisms
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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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We have stopped believing in progress. What progress that is !
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Writing long books is a laborious and impoverishing act of foolishness: expanding in five hundred pages an idea that could be perfectly explained in a few minutes. A better procedure is to pretend that those books already exist and to offer a summary, a commentary.
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