Everything touches everything.
JORGE LUIS BORGESThe future is as irrevocable as an inflexible yesterday.
More Jorge Luis Borges Quotes
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I had always thought of Paradise / In form and image as a library.
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I have preferred to teach my students not English literature but my love for certain authors, or, even better, certain pages, or even better than that, certain lines. One falls in love with a line, then with a page, then with an author. Well, why not? It is a beautiful process.
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A book is not an isolated being: it is a relationship, an axis of innumerable relationships
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Thus my life is a flight and I lose everything and everything belongs to oblivion, or to him.
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Whoever would undertake some atrocious enterprise should act as if it were already accomplished should impose upon himself a future as irrevocable as the past.
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To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.
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We forget that we are all dead men conversing with dead men.
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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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Truth never penetrates an unwilling mind.
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Do you want to see what human eyes have never seen? Look at the moon. Do you want to hear what ears have never heard? Listen to the bird’s cry. Do you want to touch what hands have never touched? Touch the earth. Verily I say that God is about to create the world.
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Only in the present do things happen.
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Writing is nothing more than a guided dream.
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In all fiction, when a man is faced with alternatives he chooses one at the expense of others.
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The heresies we should fear are those which can be confused with orthodoxy.
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So plant your own gardens and decorate your own soul, instead of waiting for someone to bring you flowers.
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