I gazed at every mirror on the planet, not one gave back my reflection.
JORGE LUIS BORGESCensorship is the mother of metaphor.
More Jorge Luis Borges Quotes
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Death is just infinity closing in.
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Any life, however long and complicated it may be, actually consists of a single moment — the moment when a man knows forever more who he is.
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When you come right down to it, opinions are the most superficial things about anyone.
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Man’s memory shapes Its own Eden within.
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Being an agnostic means all things are possible, even God, even the Holy Trinity. This world is so strange that anything may happen, or may not happen. Being an agnostic makes me live in a larger, a more fantastic kind of world, almost uncanny. It makes me more tolerant.
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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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The mind was dreaming. The world was its dream.
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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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Reality is partial to symmetry and slight anachronisms
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While we are asleep in this world, we are awake in another one.
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Democracy is an abuse of statistics.
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The original is unfaithful to the translation.
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When I feel I’m going to write something, then I just am quiet and I try to listen. Then something comes through. And I do what I can in order not to tamper with it.
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The mightiest love was granted him Love that does not expect to be loved.
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The minotaur more than justifies the existence of the labyrinth.
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