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.
JORGE LUIS BORGESA man sets himself the task of portraying the world. Shortly before he dies he discovers that this patient labyrinth of lines is a drawing of his own face.
More Jorge Luis Borges Quotes
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The future is as irrevocable as an inflexible yesterday.
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The worst labyrinth is not that intricate form that can entrap us forever, but a single and precise straight line.
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We accept reality so readily – perhaps because we sense that nothing is real.
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I have committed the worst of sins one can commit. I have not been happy.
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I am not sure that I exist, actually. I am all the writers that I have read, all the people that I have met, all the women that I have loved; all the cities I have visited.
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I believe books will never disappear. It is impossible for it to happen. Of all man’s diverse tools, undoubtedly the most astounding are his books… If books were to disappear, history would disappear. So would man.
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What you really value is what you miss, not what you have.
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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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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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He consorted with prostitutes and poets and with persons even worse.
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The word happiness exists in every language; it is plausible the thing itself exists.
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A writer’s work is the product of laziness.
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The mind was dreaming. The world was its dream.
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I have sometimes suspected that the only thing that holds no mystery is happiness, because it is its own justification.
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The Falklands thing was a fight between two bald men over a comb.
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