It’s a shame that we have to choose between two such second-rate countries as the USSR and the USA.
JORGE LUIS BORGESFilms 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.
More Jorge Luis Borges Quotes
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Soccer is popular because stupidity is popular.
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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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The future is as irrevocable as an inflexible yesterday.
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Death is just infinity closing in.
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I can give you my loneliness, my darkness, the hunger of my heart, I am trying to bribe you with uncertainty, with danger, with defeat.
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We are our memory, we are that chimerical museum of shifting shapes, that pile of broken mirrors.
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The mind was dreaming. The world was its dream.
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I think most people are more important than their opinions.
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Heaven and hell seem out of proportion to me: the actions of men do not deserve so much.
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The central fact of my life has been the existence of words and the possibility of weaving those words into poetry.
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Everything touches everything.
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So plant your own gardens and decorate your own soul, instead of waiting for someone to bring you flowers.
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Each thing implies the universe.
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When you come right down to it, opinions are the most superficial things about anyone.
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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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