I walk slowly, like one who comes from so far away he doesn’t expect to arrive.
JORGE LUIS BORGESLife itself is a quotation.
More Jorge Luis Borges Quotes
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I am not sure of anything, I know nothing. Can you imagine that I don’t even know the date of my own death?
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I think of reading a book as no less an experience than travelling or falling in love.
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What you really value is what you miss, not what you have.
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From my weakness, I drew strength that never left me.
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I think most people are more important than their opinions.
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In general, every country has the language it deserves.
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Writing is nothing more than a guided dream.
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In my next life I will try to commit more errors.
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To die for a religion is easier than to live it absolutely.
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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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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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A writer – and, I believe, generally all persons – must think that whatever happens to him or her is a resource.
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Only in the present do things happen.
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He consorted with prostitutes and poets and with persons even worse.
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I foresee that man will resign himself each day to new abominations, and soon that only bandits and soldiers will be left.
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