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.
JORGE LUIS BORGESI think most people are more important than their opinions.
More Jorge Luis Borges Quotes
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It’s a shame that we have to choose between two such second-rate countries as the USSR and the USA.
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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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Man’s memory shapes Its own Eden within.
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A man sets himself the task of portraying the world. Shortly before he dies he discovers that this patient labyrinth of lines is a drawing of his own face.
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He was very religious; he believed that he had a secret pact with God which exempted him from doing good in exchange for prayers and piety.
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I cannot sleep unless I am surrounded by books.
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The possibilities of the art of combination are not infinite, but they tend to be frightful.
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Nothing is built on stone; all is built on sand, but we must build as if the sand were stone.
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Time is the tiger that devours me, but I am that tiger.
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Personally, I am a hedonistic reader; I have never read a book merely because it was ancient. I read books for the aesthetic emotions they offer me, and I ignore the commentaries and criticism.
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To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.
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The sea is an idiom I cannot decipher.
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Reality favors symmetry.
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The visible universe was an illusion or, more precisely, a sophism. Mirrors and fatherhood are abominable because they multiply it and extend it.
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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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