The earth we inhabit is an error, an incompetent parody. Mirrors and paternity are abominable because they multiply and affirm it.
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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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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Thus my life is a flight and I lose everything and everything belongs to oblivion, or to him.
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The heresies we should fear are those which can be confused with orthodoxy.
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The minotaur more than justifies the existence of the labyrinth.
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Man’s memory shapes Its own Eden within.
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Time, which despoils castles, enriches verses.
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Doubt is one of the names of intelligence.
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No one is anyone, one single immortal man is all men. Like Cornelius Agrippa, I am god, I am hero, I am philosopher, I am demon and I am world, which is a tedious way of saying that I do not exist.
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For me, beauty is a physical sensation, something we feel with our whole body. It is not the result of judgement. We do not arrive at it by way of rules. We either feel beauty or we don’t.
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To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.
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When one confesses to an act, one ceases to be an actor in it and becomes its witness, becomes a man that observes and narrates it and no longer the man that performed it.
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What you really value is what you miss, not what you have.
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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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Time forks perpetually toward innumerable futures.
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He thought that the rose was to be found in its own eternity and not in his words; and that we may mention or allude to a thing, but not express it.
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