Soccer is popular because stupidity is popular.
JORGE LUIS BORGESWhen writers die they become books, which is, after all, not too bad an incarnation.
More Jorge Luis Borges Quotes
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Do you want to see what human eyes have never seen? Look at the moon. Do you want to hear what ears have never heard? Listen to the bird’s cry. Do you want to touch what hands have never touched? Touch the earth. Verily I say that God is about to create the world.
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In Spanish it is very difficult to make things flow, because words are over-long. But in English, you have light words.
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Writing long books is a laborious and impoverishing act of foolishness: expanding in five hundred pages an idea that could be perfectly explained in a few minutes. A better procedure is to pretend that those books already exist and to offer a summary, a commentary.
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When writers die they become books, which is, after all, not too bad an incarnation.
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You may win your heart’s desire, but in the end you’re cheated of it by death.
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Art is endless like a river flowing, passing, yet remaining.
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A man sets himself the task of portraying the world. Shortly before he dies he discovers that this patient labyrinth of lines is a drawing of his own face.
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From my weakness, I drew strength that never left me.
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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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There’s no need to build a labyrinth when the entire universe is one.
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The future is as irrevocable as an inflexible yesterday.
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I cannot sleep unless I am surrounded by books.
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We have a very precise image – an image at times shameless – of what we have lost, but we are ignorant of what may follow or replace it.
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To die for a religion is easier than to live it absolutely.
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Poetry remembers that it was an oral art before it was a written art.
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