What I’m really concerned about is reaching one person. And that person may be myself for all I know.
JORGE LUIS BORGESSoccer is popular because stupidity is popular.
More Jorge Luis Borges Quotes
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I have committed the worst of sins one can commit. I have not been happy.
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Poets, like the blind, can see in the dark.
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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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I gazed at every mirror on the planet, not one gave back my reflection.
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We have a very precise image – an image at times shameless – of what we have lost, but we are ignorant of what may follow or replace it.
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Many of the characters are fools and they’re always playing tricks on me and treating me badly.
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Israelites, Christians and Muslims profess immortality, but the veneration they render this world proves they believe only in it, since they destine all other worlds, in infinite number, to be its reward or punishment.
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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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A writer should have another lifetime to see if he’s appreciated.
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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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The minotaur more than justifies the existence of the labyrinth.
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To die for a religion is easier than to live it absolutely.
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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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Loneliness does not worry me; life is difficult enough, putting up with yourself and with your own habits.
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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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