The possibilities of the art of combination are not infinite, but they tend to be frightful.
JORGE LUIS BORGESIn my next life I will try to commit more errors.
More Jorge Luis Borges Quotes
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I cannot walk through the suburbs in the solitude of the night without thinking that the night pleases us because it suppresses idle details, just as our memory does.
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No one is a poet from eight to twelve and from two to six. Whoever is a poet is one always, and continually assaulted by poetry.
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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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Another school declares that all time has already transpired and that our life is only the crepuscular and no doubt falsified and mutilated memory or reflection of an irrecoverable process.
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Only in the present do things happen.
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The word happiness exists in every language; it is plausible the thing itself exists.
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When one confesses to an act, one ceases to be an actor in it and becomes its witness, becomes a man that observes and narrates it and no longer the man that performed it.
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While we are asleep in this world, we are awake in another one.
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Happy are the beloved and the lovers and those who can live without love.
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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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I have committed the worst of sins one can commit. I have not been happy.
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Loneliness does not worry me; life is difficult enough, putting up with yourself and with your own habits.
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Democracy is an abuse of statistics.
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The Falklands thing was a fight between two bald men over a comb.
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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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