Art is endless like a river flowing, passing, yet remaining.
JORGE LUIS BORGESEvery novel is an ideal plane inserted into the realm of reality.
More Jorge Luis Borges Quotes
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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 had always thought of Paradise / In form and image as a library.
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What a writer wants to do is not what he does.
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Reality is not always probable, or likely.
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Whoever would undertake some atrocious enterprise should act as if it were already accomplished should impose upon himself a future as irrevocable as the past.
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I think that the reader should enrich what he is reading. He should misunderstand the text; he should change it into something else.
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I have always come to life after coming to books.
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I ask of any God, of any gods, that if they give immortality, I hope to be granted oblivion also.
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Thus my life is a flight and I lose everything and everything belongs to oblivion, or to him.
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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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While we are asleep in this world, we are awake in another one.
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Poets, like the blind, can see in the dark.
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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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It is clear that there is no classification of the Universe that is not arbitrary and full of conjectures. The reason for this is very simple: we do not know what kind of thing the universe is.
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The heresies we should fear are those which can be confused with orthodoxy.
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