To be immortal is commonplace; except for man, all creatures are immortal, for they are ignorant of death; what is divine, terrible, incomprehensible, is to know that one is immortal.
JORGE LUIS BORGESI have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.
More Jorge Luis Borges Quotes
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I have always come to life after coming to books.
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What you really value is what you miss, not what you have.
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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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Art is endless like a river flowing, passing, yet remaining.
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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 future is as irrevocable as an inflexible yesterday.
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Democracy is an abuse of statistics.
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I think most people are more important than their opinions.
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There is no point in being overwhelmed by the appalling total of human sufferring; such a total does not exist. Neither poverty nor pain is accumulable.
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We forget that we are all dead men conversing with dead men.
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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 might accept immortality, if I had to do it. But I would prefer – if there is any afterlife – to know nothing whatever about Borges, about his experiences in this world.
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Doubt is one of the names of intelligence.
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Happy are the beloved and the lovers and those who can live without love.
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The Falklands thing was a fight between two bald men over a comb.
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