Reality favors symmetry.
JORGE LUIS BORGESI cannot walk through the suburbs in the solitude of the night without thinking that the night pleases us because it suppresses idle details, just as our memory does.
More Jorge Luis Borges Quotes
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What a writer wants to do is not what he does.
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For me, beauty is a physical sensation, something we feel with our whole body. It is not the result of judgement. We do not arrive at it by way of rules. We either feel beauty or we don’t.
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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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Life itself is a quotation.
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There is nothing in the world that is not mysterious, but the mystery is more evident in certain things than in others: in the sea, in the eyes of the elders, in the color yellow, and in music.
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What I’m really concerned about is reaching one person. And that person may be myself for all I know.
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I believe books will never disappear. It is impossible for it to happen. Of all man’s diverse tools, undoubtedly the most astounding are his books… If books were to disappear, history would disappear. So would man.
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My books standing there on the shelf do not know that I have written them.
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Truth never penetrates an unwilling mind.
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A book is not an isolated being: it is a relationship, an axis of innumerable relationships
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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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Happy are the beloved and the lovers and those who can live without love.
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Time, which despoils castles, enriches verses.
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The dictionary is based on the hypothesis — obviously an unproven one — that languages are made up of equivalent synonyms.
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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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