You can’t measure time by days, the way you measure money by dollars and cents, because dollars are all the same while every day is different and maybe every hour as well.
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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Personally, I am a hedonistic reader; I have never read a book merely because it was ancient. I read books for the aesthetic emotions they offer me, and I ignore the commentaries and criticism.
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How can we manage to illuminate the pathos of our lives?
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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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I never reread what I’ve written. I’m far too afraid to feel ashamed of what I’ve done.
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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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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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The things that are said in literature are always the same. What is important is the way they are said.
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The heresies we should fear are those which can be confused with orthodoxy.
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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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I gazed at every mirror on the planet, not one gave back my reflection.
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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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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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I believe that in time we will have reached the point where we will deserve to be free of government.
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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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Soccer is popular because stupidity is popular.
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