In general, every country has the language it deserves.
JORGE LUIS BORGESReality is partial to symmetry and slight anachronisms
More Jorge Luis Borges Quotes
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Reality favors symmetry.
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The mightiest love was granted him Love that does not expect to be loved.
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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 flattery of posterity is not worth much more than contemporary flattery, which is worth nothing.
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I cannot sleep unless I am surrounded by books.
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Then I reflect that all things happen, happen to one, precisely now. Century follows century, and things happen only in the present. There are countless men in the air, on land and at sea, and all that really happens happens to me.
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Poets, like the blind, can see in the dark.
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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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The dictionary is based on the hypothesis — obviously an unproven one — that languages are made up of equivalent synonyms.
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I thought that a man can be an enemy of other men, of the moments of other men, but not of a country: not of fireflies, words, gardens, streams of water, sunsets.
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The future is as irrevocable as an inflexible yesterday.
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A poet is a discoverer rather than an inventor.
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I might accept immortality, if I had to do it. But I would prefer – if there is any afterlife – to know nothing whatever about Borges, about his experiences in this world.
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I had always thought of Paradise / In form and image as a library.
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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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