Democracy is an abuse of statistics.
JORGE LUIS BORGESThe heresies we should fear are those which can be confused with orthodoxy.
More Jorge Luis Borges Quotes
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I have sometimes suspected that the only thing that holds no mystery is happiness, because it is its own justification.
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A writer – and, I believe, generally all persons – must think that whatever happens to him or her is a resource.
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The heresies we should fear are those which can be confused with orthodoxy.
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I ask of any God, of any gods, that if they give immortality, I hope to be granted oblivion also.
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Time is the substance from which I am made. Time is a river which carries me along, but I am the river; it is a tiger that devours me, but I am the tiger; it is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire.
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What you really value is what you miss, not what you have.
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Happy are the beloved and the lovers and those who can live without love.
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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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To arrange a library is to practice in a quiet and modest way the art of criticism.
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The word happiness exists in every language; it is plausible the thing itself exists.
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Blindness 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.
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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.
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The sea is an idiom I cannot decipher.
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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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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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