I am not sure of anything, I know nothing. Can you imagine that I don’t even know the date of my own death?
JORGE LUIS BORGESWe accept reality so readily – perhaps because we sense that nothing is real.
More Jorge Luis Borges Quotes
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Happy are the beloved and the lovers and those who can live without love.
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The future is as irrevocable as an inflexible yesterday.
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Beyond my anxiety, beyond this writing, the universe waits, inexhaustible, inviting.
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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 favors symmetry.
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Being an agnostic means all things are possible, even God, even the Holy Trinity. This world is so strange that anything may happen, or may not happen. Being an agnostic makes me live in a larger, a more fantastic kind of world, almost uncanny. It makes me more tolerant.
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In my next life I will try to commit more errors.
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Time is the tiger that devours me, but I am that tiger.
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You have wakened not out of sleep, but into a prior dream, and that dream lies within another, and so on, to infinity, which is the number of grains of sand. The path that you are to take is endless, and you will die before you have truly awakened.
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There is nothing in the world that is not mysterious, but the mystery is more evident in certain things than in others: in the sea, in the eyes of the elders, in the color yellow, and in music.
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You can’t measure time by days, the way you measure money by dollars and cents, because dollars are all the same while every day is different and maybe every hour as well.
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We have a very precise image – an image at times shameless – of what we have lost, but we are ignorant of what may follow or replace it.
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To say good-bye is to deny separation; it is to say Today we play at going our own ways, but we’ll see each other tomorrow. Men invented farewells because they somehow knew themselves to be immortal, even while seeing themselves as contingent and ephemeral.
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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.
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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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