To die for a religion is easier than to live it absolutely.
JORGE LUIS BORGESTruth never penetrates an unwilling mind.
More Jorge Luis Borges Quotes
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The future has no other reality than as present hope, and the past is no more than present memory.
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Your unforgivable sins do not allow you to see my splendor.
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Time can’t be measured in days the way money is measured in pesos and centavos, because all pesos are equal, while every day, perhaps every hour, is different.
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In general, every country has the language it deserves.
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All that happens to us, including our humiliations, our misfortunes, our embarrassments, all is given to us as raw material, as clay, so that we may shape our art.
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Creativity is suspended between memory and forgetting.
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What will die with me when I die, what pathetic or fragile form will the world lose?
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When writers die they become books, which is, after all, not too bad an incarnation.
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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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Reality is not always probable, or likely.
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I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.
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I believe that in time we will have reached the point where we will deserve to be free of government.
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Every novel is an ideal plane inserted into the realm of reality.
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I saw a sunset in Queretaro that seemed to reflect the color of a rose in Bengal.
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In Spanish it is very difficult to make things flow, because words are over-long. But in English, you have light words.
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