It’s a shame that we have to choose between two such second-rate countries as the USSR and the USA.
JORGE LUIS BORGESCreativity is suspended between memory and forgetting.
More Jorge Luis Borges Quotes
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From my weakness, I drew strength that never left me.
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The worst labyrinth is not that intricate form that can entrap us forever, but a single and precise straight line.
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Being with you and not being with you is the only way I have to measure time.
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Every man should be capable of all ideas.
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I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.
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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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Democracy is an abuse of statistics.
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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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A poet is a discoverer rather than an inventor.
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Don’t talk unless you can improve the silence.
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If I were asked to name the chief event in my life, I should say my father’s library.
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Writing is nothing more than a guided dream.
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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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It is clear that there is no classification of the Universe that is not arbitrary and full of conjectures. The reason for this is very simple: we do not know what kind of thing the universe is.
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Doubt is one of the names of intelligence.
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