Time is the tiger that devours me, but I am that tiger.
JORGE LUIS BORGESA writer should have another lifetime to see if he’s appreciated.
More Jorge Luis Borges Quotes
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Democracy is an abuse of statistics.
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Time is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire.
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The sea is an idiom I cannot decipher.
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I never reread what I’ve written. I’m far too afraid to feel ashamed of what I’ve done.
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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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A poet is a discoverer rather than an inventor.
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When writers die they become books, which is, after all, not too bad an incarnation.
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He consorted with prostitutes and poets and with persons even worse.
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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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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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A writer should have another lifetime to see if he’s appreciated.
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How can we manage to illuminate the pathos of our lives?
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It’s a shame that we have to choose between two such second-rate countries as the USSR and the USA.
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Personally, I am a hedonistic reader; I have never read a book merely because it was ancient. I read books for the aesthetic emotions they offer me, and I ignore the commentaries and criticism.
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He was very religious; he believed that he had a secret pact with God which exempted him from doing good in exchange for prayers and piety.
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