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.
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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We have stopped believing in progress. What progress that is !
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Creativity is suspended between memory and forgetting.
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Reality may avoid the obligation to be interesting, but hypotheses may not.
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Writing long books is a laborious and impoverishing act of foolishness: expanding in five hundred pages an idea that could be perfectly explained in a few minutes. A better procedure is to pretend that those books already exist and to offer a summary, a commentary.
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I am not sure of anything, I know nothing. Can you imagine that I don’t even know the date of my own death?
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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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Reality is partial to symmetry and slight anachronisms
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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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A writer’s work is the product of laziness.
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The mind was dreaming. The world was its dream.
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I think most people are more important than their opinions.
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Heaven and hell seem out of proportion to me: the actions of men do not deserve so much.
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A writer needs loneliness, and he gets his share of it. He needs love, and he gets shared and also unshared love. He needs friendship. In fact, he needs the universe. To be a writer is, in a sense, to be a day-dreamer – to be living a kind of double life.
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Personally, I am a hedonistic reader; I have never read a book merely because it was ancient. I read books for the aesthetic emotions they offer me, and I ignore the commentaries and criticism.
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Time forks perpetually toward innumerable futures.
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