In adultery, there is usually tenderness and self-sacrifice; in murder, courage; in profanation and blasphemy, a certain satanic splendour. Judas elected those offences unvisited by any virtues: abuse of confidence and informing.
JORGE LUIS BORGESThe heresies we should fear are those which can be confused with orthodoxy.
More Jorge Luis Borges Quotes
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Time, which despoils castles, enriches verses.
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There’s no need to build a labyrinth when the entire universe is one.
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You may win your heart’s desire, but in the end you’re cheated of it by death.
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He was very religious; he believed that he had a secret pact with God which exempted him from doing good in exchange for prayers and piety.
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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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I can give you my loneliness, my darkness, the hunger of my heart, I am trying to bribe you with uncertainty, with danger, with defeat.
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Reality favors symmetry.
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The sea is an idiom I cannot decipher.
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One concept corrupts and confuses the others. I am not speaking of the Evil whose limited sphere is ethics; I am speaking of the infinite.
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He consorted with prostitutes and poets and with persons even worse.
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I think that the reader should enrich what he is reading. He should misunderstand the text; he should change it into something else.
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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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Many of the characters are fools and they’re always playing tricks on me and treating me badly.
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What will die with me when I die, what pathetic or fragile form will the world lose?
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Each thing implies the universe.
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