Reality is partial to symmetry and slight anachronisms
JORGE LUIS BORGESThe Falklands thing was a fight between two bald men over a comb.
More Jorge Luis Borges Quotes
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It means much to have loved, to have been happy, to have laid my hand on the living Garden, even for a day.
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While we are asleep in this world, we are awake in another one.
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Blindness has not been for me a total misfortune; it should not be seen in a pathetic way. It should be seen as a way of life: one of the styles of living.
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Everything touches everything.
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The flattery of posterity is not worth much more than contemporary flattery, which is worth nothing.
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Time is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire.
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In adultery, there is usually tenderness and self-sacrifice; in murder, courage; in profanation and blasphemy, a certain satanic splendour. Judas elected those offences unvisited by any virtues: abuse of confidence and informing.
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If space is infinite, we may be at any point in space. If time is infinite, we may be at any point in time.
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Dictatorships foster oppression, dictatorships foster servitude, dictatorships foster cruelty; more abominable is the fact that they foster idiocy.
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The visible universe was an illusion or, more precisely, a sophism. Mirrors and fatherhood are abominable because they multiply it and extend it.
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Truth never penetrates an unwilling mind.
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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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So plant your own gardens and decorate your own soul, instead of waiting for someone to bring you flowers.
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Reality is not always probable, or likely.
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I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.
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