To die for a religion is easier than to live it absolutely.
JORGE LUIS BORGESI would rather like to think of God as being a kind of adventurer – even as Wells thought about him – or perhaps as something within us making for some unknown purpose.
More Jorge Luis Borges Quotes
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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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Every novel is an ideal plane inserted into the realm of reality.
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A book is not an isolated being: it is a relationship, an axis of innumerable relationships
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Art is endless like a river flowing, passing, yet remaining.
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May Heaven exist, even if my place is Hell.
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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 believe that in time we will have reached the point where we will deserve to be free of government.
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I had always thought of Paradise / In form and image as a library.
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Time is the tiger that devours me, but I am that tiger.
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Then I reflect that all things happen, happen to one, precisely now. Century follows century, and things happen only in the present. There are countless men in the air, on land and at sea, and all that really happens happens to me.
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The man who acquires an encyclopedia does not thereby acquire every line, every paragraph, every page, and every illustration; he acquires the possibility of becoming familiar with one and another of those things.
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I saw a sunset in Queretaro that seemed to reflect the color of a rose in Bengal.
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Man’s memory shapes Its own Eden within.
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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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Reality is partial to symmetry and slight anachronisms
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