Every man should be capable of all ideas.
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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Time is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire.
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Another school declares that all time has already transpired and that our life is only the crepuscular and no doubt falsified and mutilated memory or reflection of an irrecoverable process.
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Reality is partial to symmetry and slight anachronisms
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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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A poet is a discoverer rather than an inventor.
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The Falklands thing was a fight between two bald men over a comb.
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I have committed the worst of sins one can commit. I have not been happy.
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The sea is an idiom I cannot decipher.
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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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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 minotaur more than justifies the existence of the labyrinth.
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A writer should have another lifetime to see if he’s appreciated.
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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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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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What will die with me when I die, what pathetic or fragile form will the world lose?
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