We accept reality so readily – perhaps because we sense that nothing is real.
JORGE LUIS BORGESMan’s memory shapes Its own Eden within.
More Jorge Luis Borges Quotes
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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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Being with you and not being with you is the only way I have to measure time.
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Reality is partial to symmetry and slight anachronisms
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The sea is an idiom I cannot decipher.
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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.
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Another school declares that all time has already transpired and that our life is only the crepuscular and no doubt falsified and mutilated memory or reflection of an irrecoverable process.
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Loneliness does not worry me; life is difficult enough, putting up with yourself and with your own habits.
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Art is endless like a river flowing, passing, yet remaining.
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The future is as irrevocable as an inflexible yesterday.
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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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Dictatorships foster oppression, dictatorships foster servitude, dictatorships foster cruelty; more abominable is the fact that they foster idiocy.
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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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Time, which despoils castles, enriches verses.
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So plant your own gardens and decorate your own soul, instead of waiting for someone to bring you flowers.
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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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