When you come right down to it, opinions are the most superficial things about anyone.
JORGE LUIS BORGESTo 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.
More Jorge Luis Borges Quotes
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There’s no need to build a labyrinth when the entire universe is one.
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The mightiest love was granted him Love that does not expect to be loved.
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A writer’s work is the product of laziness.
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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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He consorted with prostitutes and poets and with persons even worse.
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What you really value is what you miss, not what you have.
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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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My undertaking is not difficult, essentially. I should only have to be immortal to carry it out.
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Each thing implies the universe.
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Art is very mysterious. I wonder if you can really do any damage to art. I think that when we’re writing, something comes through or should come through, in spite of our theories. So theories are not really important.
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It also occurred to him that throughout history, humankind has told two stories: the story of a lost ship sailing the Mediterranean seas in quest of a beloved isle, and the story of a god who allows himself to be crucified on Golgotha.
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I never reread what I’ve written. I’m far too afraid to feel ashamed of what I’ve done.
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To die for a religion is easier than to live it absolutely.
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There is an hour of the afternoon when the plain is on the verge of saying something. It never says, or perhaps it says it infinitely, or perhaps we do not understand it, or we understand it and it is untranslatable as music.
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I might accept immortality, if I had to do it. But I would prefer – if there is any afterlife – to know nothing whatever about Borges, about his experiences in this world.
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