Life itself is a quotation.
JORGE LUIS BORGESWe have stopped believing in progress. What progress that is !
More Jorge Luis Borges Quotes
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When I wake up, I wake to something worse. It’s the astonishment of being myself.
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I am not sure that I exist, actually. I am all the writers that I have read, all the people that I have met, all the women that I have loved; all the cities I have visited.
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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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What you really value is what you miss, not what you have.
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The dictionary is based on the hypothesis — obviously an unproven one — that languages are made up of equivalent synonyms.
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Chang Tzu tells us of a persevering man who after three laborious years mastered the art of dragon-slaying. For the rest of his days, he had not a single opportunity to test his skills.
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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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A writer’s work is the product of laziness.
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Every novel is an ideal plane inserted into the realm of reality.
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Writing is nothing more than a guided dream.
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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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The truth is that we live out our lives putting off all that can be put off; perhaps we all know deep down that we are immortal and that sooner or later all men will do and know all things.
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Writing long books is a laborious and impoverishing act of foolishness: expanding in five hundred pages an idea that could be perfectly explained in a few minutes. A better procedure is to pretend that those books already exist and to offer a summary, a commentary.
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A book is not an isolated being: it is a relationship, an axis of innumerable relationships
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To die for a religion is easier than to live it absolutely.
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