Perhaps the apparent favor of the universe is no more than the crocodile grin of a Doberman breathing hard and about to be hungry?
JORGE LUIS BORGESReality is partial to symmetry and slight anachronisms
More Jorge Luis Borges Quotes
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Beyond my anxiety, beyond this writing, the universe waits, inexhaustible, inviting.
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I can give you my loneliness, my darkness, the hunger of my heart, I am trying to bribe you with uncertainty, with danger, with defeat.
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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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Soccer is popular because stupidity is popular.
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Doubt is one of the names of intelligence.
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I think that the reader should enrich what he is reading. He should misunderstand the text; he should change it into something else.
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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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To arrange a library is to practice in a quiet and modest way the art of criticism.
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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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It also occurred to him that throughout history, humankind has told two stories: the story of a lost ship sailing the Mediterranean seas in quest of a beloved isle, and the story of a god who allows himself to be crucified on Golgotha.
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There is nothing in the world that is not mysterious, but the mystery is more evident in certain things than in others: in the sea, in the eyes of the elders, in the color yellow, and in music.
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Writing is nothing more than a guided dream.
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Don’t talk unless you can improve the silence.
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Time is the tiger that devours me, but I am that tiger.
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How can we manage to illuminate the pathos of our lives?
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