There is no point in being overwhelmed by the appalling total of human sufferring; such a total does not exist. Neither poverty nor pain is accumulable.
JORGE LUIS BORGESI foresee that man will resign himself each day to new abominations, and soon that only bandits and soldiers will be left.
More Jorge Luis Borges Quotes
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My books standing there on the shelf do not know that I have written them.
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The task of art is to transform what is continuously happening to us, to transform all of these things into symbols, into music, into something which can last in man’s memory. That is our duty. If we don’t fulfill it, we feel unhappy.
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I think most people are more important than their opinions.
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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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When you come right down to it, opinions are the most superficial things about anyone.
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Soccer is popular because stupidity is popular.
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I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.
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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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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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From my weakness, I drew strength that never left me.
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To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.
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The visible universe was an illusion or, more precisely, a sophism. Mirrors and fatherhood are abominable because they multiply it and extend it.
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A poet is a discoverer rather than an inventor.
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You may win your heart’s desire, but in the end you’re cheated of it by death.
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Every novel is an ideal plane inserted into the realm of reality.
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