It’s a shame that we have to choose between two such second-rate countries as the USSR and the USA.
JORGE LUIS BORGESNo one is anyone, one single immortal man is all men. Like Cornelius Agrippa, I am god, I am hero, I am philosopher, I am demon and I am world, which is a tedious way of saying that I do not exist.
More Jorge Luis Borges Quotes
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Only in the present do things happen.
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In general, every country has the language it deserves.
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Time can’t be measured in days the way money is measured in pesos and centavos, because all pesos are equal, while every day, perhaps every hour, is different.
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Beyond my anxiety, beyond this writing, the universe waits, inexhaustible, inviting.
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Being with you and not being with you is the only way I have to measure time.
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There’s no need to build a labyrinth when the entire universe is one.
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While we are asleep in this world, we are awake in another one.
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The minotaur more than justifies the existence of the labyrinth.
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Reality is partial to symmetry and slight anachronisms
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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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Nothing is built on stone; all is built on sand, but we must build as if the sand were stone.
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Happy are the beloved and the lovers and those who can live without love.
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Reality may avoid the obligation to be interesting, but hypotheses may not.
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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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I have preferred to teach my students not English literature but my love for certain authors, or, even better, certain pages, or even better than that, certain lines. One falls in love with a line, then with a page, then with an author. Well, why not? It is a beautiful process.
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