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.
JORGE LUIS BORGESI suppose identity depends on memory. And if my memory is blotted out, then I wonder if I exist – I mean, if I am the same person. Of course, I don’t have to solve that problem. It’s up to God, if any.
More Jorge Luis Borges Quotes
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Any life, however long and complicated it may be, actually consists of a single moment — the moment when a man knows forever more who he is.
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Perhaps the apparent favor of the universe is no more than the crocodile grin of a Doberman breathing hard and about to be hungry?
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Death is just infinity closing in.
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The mightiest love was granted him Love that does not expect to be loved.
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A poet is a discoverer rather than an inventor.
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Art is endless like a river flowing, passing, yet remaining.
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The word happiness exists in every language; it is plausible the thing itself exists.
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The heresies we should fear are those which can be confused with orthodoxy.
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Writing is nothing more than a guided dream.
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Time is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire.
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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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I am almost sure to be blotted out by death, but sometimes I think it is not impossible that I may continue to live in some other manner after my physical death . Or, as Hamlet wonders, what dreams will come when we leave this body?
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A writer – and, I believe, generally all persons – must think that whatever happens to him or her is a resource.
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We forget that we are all dead men conversing with dead men.
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Man’s memory shapes Its own Eden within.
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