To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.
JORGE LUIS BORGESDemocracy is an abuse of statistics.
More Jorge Luis Borges Quotes
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A writer should have another lifetime to see if he’s appreciated.
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The future is inevitable and precise, but it may not occur. God lurks in the gaps.
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Films are even stranger, for what we are seeing are not disguised people but photographs of disguised people, and yet we believe them while the film is being shown.
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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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I cannot walk through the suburbs in the solitude of the night without thinking that the night pleases us because it suppresses idle details, just as our memory does.
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I would rather like to think of God as being a kind of adventurer – even as Wells thought about him – or perhaps as something within us making for some unknown purpose.
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What a writer wants to do is not what he does.
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Time is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire.
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Beyond my anxiety, beyond this writing, the universe waits, inexhaustible, inviting.
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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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Thus my life is a flight and I lose everything and everything belongs to oblivion, or to him.
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Reality is partial to symmetry and slight anachronisms
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I do not write for a select minority, which means nothing to me, nor for that adulated platonic entity known as ‘The Masses’. Both abstractions, so dear to the demagogue, I disbelieve in. I write for myself and for my friends, and I write to ease the passing of time.
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He thought that the rose was to be found in its own eternity and not in his words; and that we may mention or allude to a thing, but not express it.
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In my next life I will try to commit more errors.
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