The Falklands thing was a fight between two bald men over a comb.
JORGE LUIS BORGESFrom my weakness, I drew strength that never left me.
More Jorge Luis Borges Quotes
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A book is not an isolated being: it is a relationship, an axis of innumerable relationships
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In my next life I will try to commit more errors.
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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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The heresies we should fear are those which can be confused with orthodoxy.
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Time is the tiger that devours me, but I am that tiger.
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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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Democracy is an abuse of statistics.
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If space is infinite, we may be at any point in space. If time is infinite, we may be at any point in time.
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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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Doubt is one of the names of intelligence.
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I walk slowly, like one who comes from so far away he doesn’t expect to arrive.
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You have wakened not out of sleep, but into a prior dream, and that dream lies within another, and so on, to infinity, which is the number of grains of sand. The path that you are to take is endless, and you will die before you have truly awakened.
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Whoever would undertake some atrocious enterprise should act as if it were already accomplished should impose upon himself a future as irrevocable as the past.
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The fact is that poetry is not the books in the library. Poetry is the encounter of the reader with the book, the discovery of the book.
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The future is as irrevocable as an inflexible yesterday.
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