The heresies we should fear are those which can be confused with orthodoxy.
JORGE LUIS BORGESThere is an hour of the afternoon when the plain is on the verge of saying something. It never says, or perhaps it says it infinitely, or perhaps we do not understand it, or we understand it and it is untranslatable as music.
More Jorge Luis Borges Quotes
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My undertaking is not difficult, essentially. I should only have to be immortal to carry it out.
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In my next life I will try to commit more errors.
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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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Art is very mysterious. I wonder if you can really do any damage to art. I think that when we’re writing, something comes through or should come through, in spite of our theories. So theories are not really important.
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Every novel is an ideal plane inserted into the realm of reality.
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While we are asleep in this world, we are awake in another one.
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Beyond my anxiety, beyond this writing, the universe waits, inexhaustible, inviting.
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When I wake up, I wake to something worse. It’s the astonishment of being myself.
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I had always thought of Paradise / In form and image as a library.
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Death is just infinity closing in.
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I suppose identity depends on memory. And if my memory is blotted out, then I wonder if I exist – I mean, if I am the same person. Of course, I don’t have to solve that problem. It’s up to God, if any.
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It also occurred to him that throughout history, humankind has told two stories: the story of a lost ship sailing the Mediterranean seas in quest of a beloved isle, and the story of a god who allows himself to be crucified on Golgotha.
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I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.
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The sea is an idiom I cannot decipher.
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A writer should have another lifetime to see if he’s appreciated.
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