Many of the characters are fools and they’re always playing tricks on me and treating me badly.
JORGE LUIS BORGESI ask of any God, of any gods, that if they give immortality, I hope to be granted oblivion also.
More Jorge Luis Borges Quotes
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I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.
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Censorship is the mother of metaphor.
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I cannot sleep unless I am surrounded by books.
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Happy are the beloved and the lovers and those who can live without love.
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Only in the present do things happen.
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From my weakness, I drew strength that never left me.
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He consorted with prostitutes and poets and with persons even worse.
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We are our memory, we are that chimerical museum of shifting shapes, that pile of broken mirrors.
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Perhaps the apparent favor of the universe is no more than the crocodile grin of a Doberman breathing hard and about to be hungry?
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What you really value is what you miss, not what you have.
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I think most people are more important than their opinions.
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I can give you my loneliness, my darkness, the hunger of my heart, I am trying to bribe you with uncertainty, with danger, with defeat.
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I saw a sunset in Queretaro that seemed to reflect the color of a rose in Bengal.
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One concept corrupts and confuses the others. I am not speaking of the Evil whose limited sphere is ethics; I am speaking of the infinite.
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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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