I suppose identity depends on memory. And if my memory is blotted out, then I wonder if I exist – I mean, if I am the same person. Of course, I don’t have to solve that problem. It’s up to God, if any.
JORGE LUIS BORGESThere’s no need to build a labyrinth when the entire universe is one.
More Jorge Luis Borges Quotes
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Truth never penetrates an unwilling mind.
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The things that are said in literature are always the same. What is important is the way they are said.
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A writer’s work is the product of laziness.
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There’s no need to build a labyrinth when the entire universe is one.
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I think most people are more important than their opinions.
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Beyond my anxiety, beyond this writing, the universe waits, inexhaustible, inviting.
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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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Your unforgivable sins do not allow you to see my splendor.
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May Heaven exist, even if my place is Hell.
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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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From my weakness, I drew strength that never left me.
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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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When one confesses to an act, one ceases to be an actor in it and becomes its witness, becomes a man that observes and narrates it and no longer the man that performed it.
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Loneliness does not worry me; life is difficult enough, putting up with yourself and with your own habits.
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I have always come to life after coming to books.
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Each thing implies the universe.
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Many of the characters are fools and they’re always playing tricks on me and treating me badly.
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We accept reality so readily – perhaps because we sense that nothing is real.
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Happy are the beloved and the lovers and those who can live without love.
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What a writer wants to do is not what he does.
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The central fact of my life has been the existence of words and the possibility of weaving those words into poetry.
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The mightiest love was granted him Love that does not expect to be loved.
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Soccer is popular because stupidity is popular.
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A writer – and, I believe, generally all persons – must think that whatever happens to him or her is a resource.
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When you reach my age, you realize you couldn’t have done things very much better or much worse than you did them in the first place.
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To arrange a library is to practice in a quiet and modest way the art of criticism.
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