When I wake up, I wake to something worse. It’s the astonishment of being myself.
JORGE LUIS BORGESI saw all the mirrors on earth and none of them reflected me.
More Jorge Luis Borges Quotes
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In our dreams (writes Coleridge) images represent the sensations we think they cause; we do not feel horror because we are threatened by a sphinx; we dream of a sphinx in order to explain the horror we feel.
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I can give you my loneliness, my darkness, the hunger of my heart, I am trying to bribe you with uncertainty, with danger, with defeat.
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Democracy is an abuse of statistics.
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When I feel I’m going to write something, then I just am quiet and I try to listen. Then something comes through. And I do what I can in order not to tamper with it.
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Israelites, Christians and Muslims profess immortality, but the veneration they render this world proves they believe only in it, since they destine all other worlds, in infinite number, to be its reward or punishment.
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The possibilities of the art of combination are not infinite, but they tend to be frightful.
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The future is inevitable and precise, but it may not occur. God lurks in the gaps.
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Being an agnostic means all things are possible, even God, even the Holy Trinity. This world is so strange that anything may happen, or may not happen. Being an agnostic makes me live in a larger, a more fantastic kind of world, almost uncanny. It makes me more tolerant.
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What will die with me when I die, what pathetic or fragile form will the world lose?
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While we are asleep in this world, we are awake in another one.
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Censorship is the mother of metaphor.
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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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Creativity is suspended between memory and forgetting.
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Each thing implies the universe.
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I gazed at every mirror on the planet, not one gave back my reflection.
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