The word happiness exists in every language; it is plausible the thing itself exists.
JORGE LUIS BORGESMy undertaking is not difficult, essentially. I should only have to be immortal to carry it out.
More Jorge Luis Borges Quotes
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Israelites, Christians and Muslims profess immortality, but the veneration they render this world proves they believe only in it, since they destine all other worlds, in infinite number, to be its reward or punishment.
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The future is as irrevocable as an inflexible yesterday.
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Personally, I am a hedonistic reader; I have never read a book merely because it was ancient. I read books for the aesthetic emotions they offer me, and I ignore the commentaries and criticism.
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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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Life itself is a quotation.
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To die for a religion is easier than to live it absolutely.
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I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.
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Happy are the beloved and the lovers and those who can live without love.
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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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There is no point in being overwhelmed by the appalling total of human sufferring; such a total does not exist. Neither poverty nor pain is accumulable.
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Blindness has not been for me a total misfortune; it should not be seen in a pathetic way. It should be seen as a way of life: one of the styles of living.
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Dictatorships foster oppression, dictatorships foster servitude, dictatorships foster cruelty; more abominable is the fact that they foster idiocy.
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Reality is not always probable, or likely.
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The earth we inhabit is an error, an incompetent parody. Mirrors and paternity are abominable because they multiply and affirm it.
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In general, every country has the language it deserves.
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