I never reread what I’ve written. I’m far too afraid to feel ashamed of what I’ve done.
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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Time is the tiger that devours me, but I am that tiger.
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Doubt is one of the names of intelligence.
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I saw all the mirrors on earth and none of them reflected me.
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I am almost sure to be blotted out by death, but sometimes I think it is not impossible that I may continue to live in some other manner after my physical death . Or, as Hamlet wonders, what dreams will come when we leave this body?
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Let others pride themselves about how many pages they have written; I’d rather boast about the ones I’ve read.
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I am not sure that I exist, actually. I am all the writers that I have read, all the people that I have met, all the women that I have loved; all the cities I have visited.
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Everything touches everything.
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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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A writer’s work is the product of laziness.
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Censorship is the mother of metaphor.
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I am not sure of anything, I know nothing. Can you imagine that I don’t even know the date of my own death?
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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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Beyond my anxiety, beyond this writing, the universe waits, inexhaustible, inviting.
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Films are even stranger, for what we are seeing are not disguised people but photographs of disguised people, and yet we believe them while the film is being shown.
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We accept reality so readily – perhaps because we sense that nothing is real.
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