Reality is partial to symmetry and slight anachronisms
JORGE LUIS BORGESA poet is a discoverer rather than an inventor.
More Jorge Luis Borges Quotes
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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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What I’m really concerned about is reaching one person. And that person may be myself for all I know.
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When you come right down to it, opinions are the most superficial things about anyone.
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If space is infinite, we may be at any point in space. If time is infinite, we may be at any point in time.
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The dictionary is based on the hypothesis — obviously an unproven one — that languages are made up of equivalent synonyms.
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The future is as irrevocable as an inflexible yesterday.
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We have a very precise image – an image at times shameless – of what we have lost, but we are ignorant of what may follow or replace it.
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I have always come to life after coming to books.
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Each thing implies the universe.
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Reality favors symmetry.
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To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.
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Reality is not always probable, or likely.
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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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We are our memory, we are that chimerical museum of shifting shapes, that pile of broken mirrors.
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I have sometimes suspected that the only thing that holds no mystery is happiness, because it is its own justification.
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