Democracy is an abuse of statistics.
JORGE LUIS BORGESHappy are the beloved and the lovers and those who can live without love.
More Jorge Luis Borges Quotes
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There’s no need to build a labyrinth when the entire universe is one.
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For me, beauty is a physical sensation, something we feel with our whole body. It is not the result of judgement. We do not arrive at it by way of rules. We either feel beauty or we don’t.
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I gazed at every mirror on the planet, not one gave back my reflection.
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Beyond my anxiety, beyond this writing, the universe waits, inexhaustible, inviting.
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Censorship is the mother of metaphor.
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I believe books will never disappear. It is impossible for it to happen. Of all man’s diverse tools, undoubtedly the most astounding are his books… If books were to disappear, history would disappear. So would man.
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The future is inevitable and precise, but it may not occur. God lurks in the gaps.
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In Spanish it is very difficult to make things flow, because words are over-long. But in English, you have light words.
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Don’t talk unless you can improve the silence.
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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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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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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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In my next life I will try to commit more errors.
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Time can’t be measured in days the way money is measured in pesos and centavos, because all pesos are equal, while every day, perhaps every hour, is different.
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