Each thing implies the universe.
JORGE LUIS BORGESYou can’t measure time by days, the way you measure money by dollars and cents, because dollars are all the same while every day is different and maybe every hour as well.
More Jorge Luis Borges Quotes
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If I were asked to name the chief event in my life, I should say my father’s library.
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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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Blindness has not been for me a total misfortune; it should not be seen in a pathetic way. It should be seen as a way of life: one of the styles of living.
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Many of the characters are fools and they’re always playing tricks on me and treating me badly.
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Censorship is the mother of metaphor.
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I 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.
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Democracy is an abuse of statistics.
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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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A writer should have another lifetime to see if he’s appreciated.
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Time forks perpetually toward innumerable futures.
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My books standing there on the shelf do not know that I have written them.
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Time, which despoils castles, enriches verses.
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Chang Tzu tells us of a persevering man who after three laborious years mastered the art of dragon-slaying. For the rest of his days, he had not a single opportunity to test his skills.
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Reality may avoid the obligation to be interesting, but hypotheses may not.
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What a writer wants to do is not what he does.
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