The Falklands thing was a fight between two bald men over a comb.
JORGE LUIS BORGES
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Loneliness does not worry me; life is difficult enough, putting up with yourself and with your own habits.
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The Falklands thing was a fight between two bald men over a comb.
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Reality is partial to symmetry and slight anachronisms
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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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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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The dictionary is based on the hypothesis — obviously an unproven one — that languages are made up of equivalent synonyms.
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Let others pride themselves about how many pages they have written; I’d rather boast about the ones I’ve read.
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The visible universe was an illusion or, more precisely, a sophism. Mirrors and fatherhood are abominable because they multiply it and extend it.
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The heresies we should fear are those which can be confused with orthodoxy.
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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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The central fact of my life has been the existence of words and the possibility of weaving those words into poetry.
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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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Many of the characters are fools and they’re always playing tricks on me and treating me badly.
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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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The word happiness exists in every language; it is plausible the thing itself exists.
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