If I were asked to name the chief event in my life, I should say my father’s library.
JORGE LUIS BORGESMan’s memory shapes Its own Eden within.
More Jorge Luis Borges Quotes
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Life itself is a quotation.
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I had always thought of Paradise / In form and image as a library.
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When you reach my age, you realize you couldn’t have done things very much better or much worse than you did them in the first place.
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Censorship is the mother of metaphor.
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Every novel is an ideal plane inserted into the realm of reality.
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Writing is nothing more than a guided dream.
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We forget that we are all dead men conversing with dead men.
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It also occurred to him that throughout history, humankind has told two stories: the story of a lost ship sailing the Mediterranean seas in quest of a beloved isle, and the story of a god who allows himself to be crucified on Golgotha.
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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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Let others pride themselves about how many pages they have written; I’d rather boast about the ones I’ve read.
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The earth we inhabit is an error, an incompetent parody. Mirrors and paternity are abominable because they multiply and affirm it.
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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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A writer should have another lifetime to see if he’s appreciated.
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I suppose identity depends on memory. And if my memory is blotted out, then I wonder if I exist – I mean, if I am the same person. Of course, I don’t have to solve that problem. It’s up to God, if any.
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I walk slowly, like one who comes from so far away he doesn’t expect to arrive.
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