I think most people are more important than their opinions.
JORGE LUIS BORGESDeath is just infinity closing in.
More Jorge Luis Borges Quotes
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I think of reading a book as no less an experience than travelling or falling in love.
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It also occurred to him that throughout history, humankind has told two stories: the story of a lost ship sailing the Mediterranean seas in quest of a beloved isle, and the story of a god who allows himself to be crucified on Golgotha.
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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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Death is just infinity closing in.
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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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He consorted with prostitutes and poets and with persons even worse.
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Time is the tiger that devours me, but I am that tiger.
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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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What a writer wants to do is not what he does.
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A poet is a discoverer rather than an inventor.
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I believe that in time we will have reached the point where we will deserve to be free of government.
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To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.
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I would rather like to think of God as being a kind of adventurer – even as Wells thought about him – or perhaps as something within us making for some unknown purpose.
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Perhaps the apparent favor of the universe is no more than the crocodile grin of a Doberman breathing hard and about to be hungry?
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The future is inevitable and precise, but it may not occur. God lurks in the gaps.
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