Dictatorships foster oppression, dictatorships foster servitude, dictatorships foster cruelty; more abominable is the fact that they foster idiocy.
JORGE LUIS BORGESHe consorted with prostitutes and poets and with persons even worse.
More Jorge Luis Borges Quotes
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Time is the substance from which I am made. Time is a river which carries me along, but I am the river; it is a tiger that devours me, but I am the tiger; it is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire.
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A writer should have another lifetime to see if he’s appreciated.
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He consorted with prostitutes and poets and with persons even worse.
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Happy are the beloved and the lovers and those who can live without love.
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Life itself is a quotation.
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What will die with me when I die, what pathetic or fragile form will the world lose?
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Blindness has not been for me a total misfortune; it should not be seen in a pathetic way. It should be seen as a way of life: one of the styles of living.
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Your unforgivable sins do not allow you to see my splendor.
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I walk slowly, like one who comes from so far away he doesn’t expect to arrive.
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The earth we inhabit is an error, an incompetent parody. Mirrors and paternity are abominable because they multiply and affirm it.
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I believe that in time we will have reached the point where we will deserve to be free of government.
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I cannot walk through the suburbs in the solitude of the night without thinking that the night pleases us because it suppresses idle details, just as our memory does.
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If I were asked to name the chief event in my life, I should say my father’s library.
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Time is the tiger that devours me, but I am that tiger.
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Democracy is an abuse of statistics.
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