Thus my life is a flight and I lose everything and everything belongs to oblivion, or to him.
JORGE LUIS BORGESA book is not an isolated being: it is a relationship, an axis of innumerable relationships
More Jorge Luis Borges Quotes
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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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If I were asked to name the chief event in my life, I should say my father’s library.
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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 worst labyrinth is not that intricate form that can entrap us forever, but a single and precise straight line.
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When writers die they become books, which is, after all, not too bad an incarnation.
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Writing long books is a laborious and impoverishing act of foolishness: expanding in five hundred pages an idea that could be perfectly explained in a few minutes. A better procedure is to pretend that those books already exist and to offer a summary, a commentary.
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You have wakened not out of sleep, but into a prior dream, and that dream lies within another, and so on, to infinity, which is the number of grains of sand. The path that you are to take is endless, and you will die before you have truly awakened.
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From my weakness, I drew strength that never left me.
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Dictatorships foster oppression, dictatorships foster servitude, dictatorships foster cruelty; more abominable is the fact that they foster idiocy.
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I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.
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Each thing implies the universe.
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We forget that we are all dead men conversing with dead men.
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When I write, I do it urged by an intimate necessity. I don’t have in mind an exclusive public, or a public of multitudes, I don’t think in either thing. I think about expressing what I want to say. I try to do it in the simplest way possible.
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I believe that in time we will have reached the point where we will deserve to be free of government.
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We have stopped believing in progress. What progress that is !
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