Many of the characters are fools and they’re always playing tricks on me and treating me badly.
JORGE LUIS BORGESOnly in the present do things happen.
More Jorge Luis Borges Quotes
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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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Beyond my anxiety, beyond this writing, the universe waits, inexhaustible, inviting.
JORGE LUIS BORGESBeyond my anxiety, beyond this writing, the universe waits, inexhaustible, inviting.
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So plant your own gardens and decorate your own soul, instead of waiting for someone to bring you flowers.
JORGE LUIS BORGESSo plant your own gardens and decorate your own soul, instead of waiting for someone to bring you flowers.
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Your unforgivable sins do not allow you to see my splendor.
JORGE LUIS BORGESYour unforgivable sins do not allow you to see my splendor.
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I have sometimes suspected that the only thing that holds no mystery is happiness, because it is its own justification.
JORGE LUIS BORGESI have sometimes suspected that the only thing that holds no mystery is happiness, because it is its own justification.
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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.
JORGE LUIS BORGESTime 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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I cannot sleep unless I am surrounded by books.
JORGE LUIS BORGESI cannot sleep unless I am surrounded by books.
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Any life, however long and complicated it may be, actually consists of a single moment — the moment when a man knows forever more who he is.
JORGE LUIS BORGESAny life, however long and complicated it may be, actually consists of a single moment — the moment when a man knows forever more who he is.
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Creativity is suspended between memory and forgetting.
JORGE LUIS BORGESCreativity is suspended between memory and forgetting.
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In adultery, there is usually tenderness and self-sacrifice; in murder, courage; in profanation and blasphemy, a certain satanic splendour. Judas elected those offences unvisited by any virtues: abuse of confidence and informing.
JORGE LUIS BORGESIn adultery, there is usually tenderness and self-sacrifice; in murder, courage; in profanation and blasphemy, a certain satanic splendour. Judas elected those offences unvisited by any virtues: abuse of confidence and informing.
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Soccer is popular because stupidity is popular.
JORGE LUIS BORGESSoccer is popular because stupidity is popular.
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I think that the reader should enrich what he is reading. He should misunderstand the text; he should change it into something else.
JORGE LUIS BORGESI think that the reader should enrich what he is reading. He should misunderstand the text; he should change it into something else.
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Every man should be capable of all ideas.
JORGE LUIS BORGESEvery man should be capable of all ideas.
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Reality may avoid the obligation to be interesting, but hypotheses may not.
JORGE LUIS BORGESReality may avoid the obligation to be interesting, but hypotheses may not.
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To say good-bye is to deny separation; it is to say Today we play at going our own ways, but we’ll see each other tomorrow. Men invented farewells because they somehow knew themselves to be immortal, even while seeing themselves as contingent and ephemeral.
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Death is just infinity closing in.
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