Don’t talk unless you can improve the silence.
JORGE LUIS BORGESTruth never penetrates an unwilling mind.
More Jorge Luis Borges Quotes
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The word happiness exists in every language; it is plausible the thing itself exists.
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A book is not an isolated being: it is a relationship, an axis of innumerable relationships
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I think of reading a book as no less an experience than travelling or falling in love.
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When I wake up, I wake to something worse. It’s the astonishment of being myself.
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There is an hour of the afternoon when the plain is on the verge of saying something. It never says, or perhaps it says it infinitely, or perhaps we do not understand it, or we understand it and it is untranslatable as music.
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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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Let others pride themselves about how many pages they have written; I’d rather boast about the ones I’ve read.
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Every novel is an ideal plane inserted into the realm of reality.
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I saw all the mirrors on earth and none of them reflected me.
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The future is inevitable and precise, but it may not occur. God lurks in the gaps.
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One concept corrupts and confuses the others. I am not speaking of the Evil whose limited sphere is ethics; I am speaking of the infinite.
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I might accept immortality, if I had to do it. But I would prefer – if there is any afterlife – to know nothing whatever about Borges, about his experiences in this world.
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It is clear that there is no classification of the Universe that is not arbitrary and full of conjectures. The reason for this is very simple: we do not know what kind of thing the universe is.
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The fact is that poetry is not the books in the library. Poetry is the encounter of the reader with the book, the discovery of the book.
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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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