Death is just infinity closing in.
JORGE LUIS BORGESIn my next life I will try to commit more errors.
More Jorge Luis Borges Quotes
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May Heaven exist, even if my place is Hell.
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Art is endless like a river flowing, passing, yet remaining.
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No one is anyone, one single immortal man is all men. Like Cornelius Agrippa, I am god, I am hero, I am philosopher, I am demon and I am world, which is a tedious way of saying that I do not exist.
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In my next life I will try to commit more errors.
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Soccer is popular because stupidity is popular.
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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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I do not write for a select minority, which means nothing to me, nor for that adulated platonic entity known as ‘The Masses’. Both abstractions, so dear to the demagogue, I disbelieve in. I write for myself and for my friends, and I write to ease the passing of time.
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The things that are said in literature are always the same. What is important is the way they are said.
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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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What a writer wants to do is not what he does.
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Then I reflect that all things happen, happen to one, precisely now. Century follows century, and things happen only in the present. There are countless men in the air, on land and at sea, and all that really happens happens to me.
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I am not sure of anything, I know nothing. Can you imagine that I don’t even know the date of my own death?
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To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.
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My books standing there on the shelf do not know that I have written them.
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The minotaur more than justifies the existence of the labyrinth.
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