Every man should be capable of all ideas.
JORGE LUIS BORGESThe visible universe was an illusion or, more precisely, a sophism. Mirrors and fatherhood are abominable because they multiply it and extend it.
More Jorge Luis Borges Quotes
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I think that the reader should enrich what he is reading. He should misunderstand the text; he should change it into something else.
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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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The flattery of posterity is not worth much more than contemporary flattery, which is worth nothing.
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May Heaven exist, even if my place is Hell.
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He consorted with prostitutes and poets and with persons even worse.
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A 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.
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What will die with me when I die, what pathetic or fragile form will the world lose?
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To die for a religion is easier than to live it absolutely.
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A poet is a discoverer rather than an inventor.
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Another school declares that all time has already transpired and that our life is only the crepuscular and no doubt falsified and mutilated memory or reflection of an irrecoverable process.
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The word happiness exists in every language; it is plausible the thing itself exists.
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The dictionary is based on the hypothesis — obviously an unproven one — that languages are made up of equivalent synonyms.
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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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I have committed the worst of sins one can commit. I have not been happy.
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Then I reflect that all things happen, happen to one, precisely now. Century follows century, and things happen only in the present. There are countless men in the air, on land and at sea, and all that really happens happens to me.
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