If I were asked to name the chief event in my life, I should say my father’s library.
JORGE LUIS BORGESWhat a writer wants to do is not what he does.
More Jorge Luis Borges Quotes
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We forget that we are all dead men conversing with dead men.
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Reality is not always probable, or likely.
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Every novel is an ideal plane inserted into the realm of reality.
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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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I foresee that man will resign himself each day to new abominations, and soon that only bandits and soldiers will be left.
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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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What you really value is what you miss, not what you have.
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When you come right down to it, opinions are the most superficial things about anyone.
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You have wakened not out of sleep, but into a prior dream, and that dream lies within another, and so on, to infinity, which is the number of grains of sand. The path that you are to take is endless, and you will die before you have truly awakened.
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Life itself is a quotation.
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What a writer wants to do is not what he does.
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A man sets himself the task of portraying the world. Shortly before he dies he discovers that this patient labyrinth of lines is a drawing of his own face.
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Time is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire.
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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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You 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.
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