To arrange a library is to practice in a quiet and modest way the art of criticism.
JORGE LUIS BORGESI gazed at every mirror on the planet, not one gave back my reflection.
More Jorge Luis Borges Quotes
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No one is anyone, one single immortal man is all men. Like Cornelius Agrippa, I am god, I am hero, I am philosopher, I am demon and I am world, which is a tedious way of saying that I do not exist.
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When one confesses to an act, one ceases to be an actor in it and becomes its witness, becomes a man that observes and narrates it and no longer the man that performed it.
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Life itself is a quotation.
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The possibilities of the art of combination are not infinite, but they tend to be frightful.
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I saw a sunset in Queretaro that seemed to reflect the color of a rose in Bengal.
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In all fiction, when a man is faced with alternatives he chooses one at the expense of others.
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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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A writer’s work is the product of laziness.
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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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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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Reality favors symmetry.
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I have sometimes suspected that the only thing that holds no mystery is happiness, because it is its own justification.
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We accept reality so readily – perhaps because we sense that nothing is real.
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There is nothing in the world that is not mysterious, but the mystery is more evident in certain things than in others: in the sea, in the eyes of the elders, in the color yellow, and in music.
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I think of reading a book as no less an experience than travelling or falling in love.
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