Reality is partial to symmetry and slight anachronisms
JORGE LUIS BORGESTime is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire.
More Jorge Luis Borges Quotes
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Everything touches everything.
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Time can’t be measured in days the way money is measured in pesos and centavos, because all pesos are equal, while every day, perhaps every hour, is different.
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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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A book is not an isolated being: it is a relationship, an axis of innumerable relationships
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I saw all the mirrors on earth and none of them reflected me.
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The tango is a direct expression of something that poets have often tried to state in words: the belief that a fight may be a celebration.
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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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Democracy is an abuse of statistics.
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The Falklands thing was a fight between two bald men over a comb.
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Soccer is popular because stupidity is popular.
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There’s no need to build a labyrinth when the entire universe is one.
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Every man should be capable of all ideas.
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I believe that in time we will have reached the point where we will deserve to be free of government.
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The possibilities of the art of combination are not infinite, but they tend to be frightful.
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Creativity is suspended between memory and forgetting.
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