Soccer is popular because stupidity is popular.
JORGE LUIS BORGESThe original is unfaithful to the translation.
More Jorge Luis Borges Quotes
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You may win your heart’s desire, but in the end you’re cheated of it by death.
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In general, every country has the language it deserves.
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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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The Falklands thing was a fight between two bald men over a comb.
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You can’t measure time by days, the way you measure money by dollars and cents, because dollars are all the same while every day is different and maybe every hour as well.
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A writer’s work is the product of laziness.
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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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I have sometimes suspected that the only thing that holds no mystery is happiness, because it is its own justification.
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Your unforgivable sins do not allow you to see my splendor.
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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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Films are even stranger, for what we are seeing are not disguised people but photographs of disguised people, and yet we believe them while the film is being shown.
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Art is endless like a river flowing, passing, yet remaining.
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My books standing there on the shelf do not know that I have written them.
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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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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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