The earth we inhabit is an error, an incompetent parody. Mirrors and paternity are abominable because they multiply and affirm it.
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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Reality is partial to symmetry and slight anachronisms
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All that happens to us, including our humiliations, our misfortunes, our embarrassments, all is given to us as raw material, as clay, so that we may shape our art.
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The tango is a direct expression of something that poets have often tried to state in words: the belief that a fight may be a celebration.
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Soccer is popular because stupidity is popular.
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In adultery, there is usually tenderness and self-sacrifice; in murder, courage; in profanation and blasphemy, a certain satanic splendour. Judas elected those offences unvisited by any virtues: abuse of confidence and informing.
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The word happiness exists in every language; it is plausible the thing itself exists.
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In our dreams (writes Coleridge) images represent the sensations we think they cause; we do not feel horror because we are threatened by a sphinx; we dream of a sphinx in order to explain the horror we feel.
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To be immortal is commonplace; except for man, all creatures are immortal, for they are ignorant of death; what is divine, terrible, incomprehensible, is to know that one is immortal.
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In general, every country has the language it deserves.
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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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My books standing there on the shelf do not know that I have written them.
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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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I saw a sunset in Queretaro that seemed to reflect the color of a rose in Bengal.
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It means much to have loved, to have been happy, to have laid my hand on the living Garden, even for a day.
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A book is not an isolated being: it is a relationship, an axis of innumerable relationships
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