If space is infinite, we may be at any point in space. If time is infinite, we may be at any point in time.
JORGE LUIS BORGESThe things that are said in literature are always the same. What is important is the way they are said.
More Jorge Luis Borges Quotes
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While we are asleep in this world, we are awake in another one.
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Only in the present do things happen.
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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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I foresee that man will resign himself each day to new abominations, and soon that only bandits and soldiers will be left.
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The future is as irrevocable as an inflexible yesterday.
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What will die with me when I die, what pathetic or fragile form will the world lose?
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Many of the characters are fools and they’re always playing tricks on me and treating me badly.
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Poetry remembers that it was an oral art before it was a written art.
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Death is just infinity closing in.
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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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A writer should have another lifetime to see if he’s appreciated.
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Time is the tiger that devours me, but I am that tiger.
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I never reread what I’ve written. I’m far too afraid to feel ashamed of what I’ve done.
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Democracy is an abuse of statistics.
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Films are even stranger, for what we are seeing are not disguised people but photographs of disguised people, and yet we believe them while the film is being shown.
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