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.
JORGE LUIS BORGESBlindness 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.
More Jorge Luis Borges Quotes
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I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.
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We are our memory, we are that chimerical museum of shifting shapes, that pile of broken mirrors.
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The mind was dreaming. The world was its dream.
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Writing is nothing more than a guided dream.
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When you come right down to it, opinions are the most superficial things about anyone.
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When writers die they become books, which is, after all, not too bad an incarnation.
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In my next life I will try to commit more errors.
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A poet is a discoverer rather than an inventor.
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No one is a poet from eight to twelve and from two to six. Whoever is a poet is one always, and continually assaulted by poetry.
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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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Poets, like the blind, can see in the dark.
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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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If I were asked to name the chief event in my life, I should say my father’s library.
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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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It’s a shame that we have to choose between two such second-rate countries as the USSR and the USA.
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