The Falklands thing was a fight between two bald men over a comb.
JORGE LUIS BORGES
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.
More Jorge Luis Borges Quotes
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The Falklands thing was a fight between two bald men over a comb.
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The future is as irrevocable as an inflexible yesterday.
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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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The fact is that poetry is not the books in the library. Poetry is the encounter of the reader with the book, the discovery of the book.
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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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For me, beauty is a physical sensation, something we feel with our whole body. It is not the result of judgement. We do not arrive at it by way of rules. We either feel beauty or we don’t.
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If I were asked to name the chief event in my life, I should say my father’s library.
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Truth never penetrates an unwilling mind.
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Don’t talk unless you can improve the silence.
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I saw all the mirrors on earth and none of them reflected me.
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The truth is that we live out our lives putting off all that can be put off; perhaps we all know deep down that we are immortal and that sooner or later all men will do and know all things.
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Dictatorships foster oppression, dictatorships foster servitude, dictatorships foster cruelty; more abominable is the fact that they foster idiocy.
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It’s a shame that we have to choose between two such second-rate countries as the USSR and the USA.
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The flattery of posterity is not worth much more than contemporary flattery, which is worth nothing.
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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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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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