The Falklands thing was a fight between two bald men over a comb.
JORGE LUIS BORGESA poet is a discoverer rather than an inventor.
More Jorge Luis Borges Quotes
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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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I have committed the worst of sins one can commit. I have not been happy.
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The central fact of my life has been the existence of words and the possibility of weaving those words into poetry.
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Time is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire.
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I have always come to life after coming to books.
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Every man should be capable of all ideas.
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Art is endless like a river flowing, passing, yet remaining.
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I foresee that man will resign himself each day to new abominations, and soon that only bandits and soldiers will be left.
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To say good-bye is to deny separation; it is to say Today we play at going our own ways, but we’ll see each other tomorrow. Men invented farewells because they somehow knew themselves to be immortal, even while seeing themselves as contingent and ephemeral.
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In adultery, there is usually tenderness and self-sacrifice; in murder, courage; in profanation and blasphemy, a certain satanic splendour. Judas elected those offences unvisited by any virtues: abuse of confidence and informing.
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I have preferred to teach my students not English literature but my love for certain authors, or, even better, certain pages, or even better than that, certain lines. One falls in love with a line, then with a page, then with an author. Well, why not? It is a beautiful process.
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I saw all the mirrors on earth and none of them reflected me.
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When you come right down to it, opinions are the most superficial things about anyone.
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Chang Tzu tells us of a persevering man who after three laborious years mastered the art of dragon-slaying. For the rest of his days, he had not a single opportunity to test his skills.
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All that happens to us, including our humiliations, our misfortunes, our embarrassments, all is given to us as raw material, as clay, so that we may shape our art.
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