Doubt is one of the names of intelligence.
JORGE LUIS BORGES
I 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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Doubt is one of the names of intelligence.
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Do you want to see what human eyes have never seen? Look at the moon. Do you want to hear what ears have never heard? Listen to the bird’s cry. Do you want to touch what hands have never touched? Touch the earth. Verily I say that God is about to create the world.
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Let others pride themselves about how many pages they have written; I’d rather boast about the ones I’ve read.
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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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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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You can’t measure time by days, the way you measure money by dollars and cents, because dollars are all the same while every day is different and maybe every hour as well.
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A book is not an isolated being: it is a relationship, an axis of innumerable relationships
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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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I am not sure that I exist, actually. I am all the writers that I have read, all the people that I have met, all the women that I have loved; all the cities I have visited.
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A writer should have another lifetime to see if he’s appreciated.
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The future is as irrevocable as an inflexible yesterday.
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Life itself is a quotation.
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All that happens to us, including our humiliations, our misfortunes, our embarrassments, all is given to us as raw material, as clay, so that we may shape our art.
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Another school declares that all time has already transpired and that our life is only the crepuscular and no doubt falsified and mutilated memory or reflection of an irrecoverable process.
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When you come right down to it, opinions are the most superficial things about anyone.
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