I am not sure of anything, I know nothing. Can you imagine that I don’t even know the date of my own death?
JORGE LUIS BORGESI have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.
More Jorge Luis Borges Quotes
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Doubt is one of the names of intelligence.
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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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The tango is a direct expression of something that poets have often tried to state in words: the belief that a fight may be a celebration.
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How can we manage to illuminate the pathos of our lives?
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To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.
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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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Writing is nothing more than a guided dream.
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I thought that a man can be an enemy of other men, of the moments of other men, but not of a country: not of fireflies, words, gardens, streams of water, sunsets.
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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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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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The Falklands thing was a fight between two bald men over a comb.
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Art is endless like a river flowing, passing, yet remaining.
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We forget that we are all dead men conversing with dead men.
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What a writer wants to do is not what he does.
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No one is a poet from eight to twelve and from two to six. Whoever is a poet is one always, and continually assaulted by poetry.
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