Truth never penetrates an unwilling mind.
JORGE LUIS BORGESLet others pride themselves about how many pages they have written; I’d rather boast about the ones I’ve read.
More Jorge Luis Borges Quotes
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Happy are the beloved and the lovers and those who can live without love.
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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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Dictatorships foster oppression, dictatorships foster servitude, dictatorships foster cruelty; more abominable is the fact that they foster idiocy.
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While we are asleep in this world, we are awake in another one.
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A man sets himself the task of portraying the world. Shortly before he dies he discovers that this patient labyrinth of lines is a drawing of his own face.
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I saw all the mirrors on earth and none of them reflected me.
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The word happiness exists in every language; it is plausible the thing itself exists.
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No one is a poet from eight to twelve and from two to six. Whoever is a poet is one always, and continually assaulted by poetry.
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There’s no need to build a labyrinth when the entire universe is one.
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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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We have stopped believing in progress. What progress that is !
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I think of reading a book as no less an experience than travelling or falling in love.
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The Falklands thing was a fight between two bald men over a comb.
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I would rather like to think of God as being a kind of adventurer – even as Wells thought about him – or perhaps as something within us making for some unknown purpose.
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I gazed at every mirror on the planet, not one gave back my reflection.
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