Reality is partial to symmetry and slight anachronisms
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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The tango is a direct expression of something that poets have often tried to state in words: the belief that a fight may be a celebration.
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Heaven and hell seem out of proportion to me: the actions of men do not deserve so much.
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I saw all the mirrors on earth and none of them reflected me.
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I have committed the worst of sins one can commit. I have not been happy.
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The mind was dreaming. The world was its dream.
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May Heaven exist, even if my place is Hell.
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I am not sure of anything, I know nothing. Can you imagine that I don’t even know the date of my own death?
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No one is a poet from eight to twelve and from two to six. Whoever is a poet is one always, and continually assaulted by poetry.
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We are our memory, we are that chimerical museum of shifting shapes, that pile of broken mirrors.
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The mightiest love was granted him Love that does not expect to be loved.
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Every man should be capable of all ideas.
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Let others pride themselves about how many pages they have written; I’d rather boast about the ones I’ve read.
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When I wake up, I wake to something worse. It’s the astonishment of being myself.
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If space is infinite, we may be at any point in space. If time is infinite, we may be at any point in time.
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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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