To die for a religion is easier than to live it absolutely.
JORGE LUIS BORGESI saw all the mirrors on earth and none of them reflected me.
More Jorge Luis Borges Quotes
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To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.
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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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The future is as irrevocable as an inflexible yesterday.
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I cannot sleep unless I am surrounded by books.
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It’s a shame that we have to choose between two such second-rate countries as the USSR and the USA.
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The dictionary is based on the hypothesis — obviously an unproven one — that languages are made up of equivalent synonyms.
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The earth we inhabit is an error, an incompetent parody. Mirrors and paternity are abominable because they multiply and affirm it.
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Art is endless like a river flowing, passing, yet remaining.
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I would rather like to think of God as being a kind of adventurer – even as Wells thought about him – or perhaps as something within us making for some unknown purpose.
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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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Being with you and not being with you is the only way I have to measure time.
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There’s no need to build a labyrinth when the entire universe is one.
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What you really value is what you miss, not what you have.
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Censorship is the mother of metaphor.
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Time can’t be measured in days the way money is measured in pesos and centavos, because all pesos are equal, while every day, perhaps every hour, is different.
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