We have stopped believing in progress. What progress that is !
JORGE LUIS BORGESDeath is just infinity closing in.
More Jorge Luis Borges Quotes
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Let others pride themselves about how many pages they have written; I’d rather boast about the ones I’ve read.
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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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The flattery of posterity is not worth much more than contemporary flattery, which is worth nothing.
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To die for a religion is easier than to live it absolutely.
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Art is endless like a river flowing, passing, yet remaining.
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The mind was dreaming. The world was its dream.
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I have committed the worst of sins one can commit. I have not been happy.
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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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Creativity is suspended between memory and forgetting.
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Then I reflect that all things happen, happen to one, precisely now. Century follows century, and things happen only in the present. There are countless men in the air, on land and at sea, and all that really happens happens to me.
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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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I never reread what I’ve written. I’m far too afraid to feel ashamed of what I’ve done.
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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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My undertaking is not difficult, essentially. I should only have to be immortal to carry it out.
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The worst labyrinth is not that intricate form that can entrap us forever, but a single and precise straight line.
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