Death is just infinity closing in.
JORGE LUIS BORGESI have always come to life after coming to books.
More Jorge Luis Borges Quotes
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I walk slowly, like one who comes from so far away he doesn’t expect to arrive.
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To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.
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Another school declares that all time has already transpired and that our life is only the crepuscular and no doubt falsified and mutilated memory or reflection of an irrecoverable process.
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The future is as irrevocable as an inflexible yesterday.
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A book is not an isolated being: it is a relationship, an axis of innumerable relationships
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We have stopped believing in progress. What progress that is !
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When writers die they become books, which is, after all, not too bad an incarnation.
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The earth we inhabit is an error, an incompetent parody. Mirrors and paternity are abominable because they multiply and affirm it.
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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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It is clear that there is no classification of the Universe that is not arbitrary and full of conjectures. The reason for this is very simple: we do not know what kind of thing the universe is.
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We accept reality so readily – perhaps because we sense that nothing is real.
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What a writer wants to do is not what he does.
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Loneliness does not worry me; life is difficult enough, putting up with yourself and with your own habits.
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The mightiest love was granted him Love that does not expect to be loved.
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The possibilities of the art of combination are not infinite, but they tend to be frightful.
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