I am almost sure to be blotted out by death, but sometimes I think it is not impossible that I may continue to live in some other manner after my physical death . Or, as Hamlet wonders, what dreams will come when we leave this body?
JORGE LUIS BORGESTruth never penetrates an unwilling mind.
More Jorge Luis Borges Quotes
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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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The original is unfaithful to the translation.
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I cannot sleep unless I am surrounded by books.
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We forget that we are all dead men conversing with dead men.
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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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When you come right down to it, opinions are the most superficial things about anyone.
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I have committed the worst of sins one can commit. I have not been happy.
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We are our memory, we are that chimerical museum of shifting shapes, that pile of broken mirrors.
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Whoever would undertake some atrocious enterprise should act as if it were already accomplished should impose upon himself a future as irrevocable as the past.
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Democracy is an abuse of statistics.
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If I were asked to name the chief event in my life, I should say my father’s library.
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The Falklands thing was a fight between two bald men over a comb.
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How can we manage to illuminate the pathos of our lives?
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It means much to have loved, to have been happy, to have laid my hand on the living Garden, even for a day.
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What I’m really concerned about is reaching one person. And that person may be myself for all I know.
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