Being an agnostic means all things are possible, even God, even the Holy Trinity. This world is so strange that anything may happen, or may not happen. Being an agnostic makes me live in a larger, a more fantastic kind of world, almost uncanny. It makes me more tolerant.
JORGE LUIS BORGESIt also occurred to him that throughout history, humankind has told two stories: the story of a lost ship sailing the Mediterranean seas in quest of a beloved isle, and the story of a god who allows himself to be crucified on Golgotha.
More Jorge Luis Borges Quotes
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To die for a religion is easier than to live it absolutely.
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Doubt is one of the names of intelligence.
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When you come right down to it, opinions are the most superficial things about anyone.
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Life itself is a quotation.
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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.
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We accept reality so readily – perhaps because we sense that nothing is real.
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Creativity is suspended between memory and forgetting.
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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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Dictatorships foster oppression, dictatorships foster servitude, dictatorships foster cruelty; more abominable is the fact that they foster idiocy.
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The mind was dreaming. The world was its dream.
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Time forks perpetually toward innumerable futures.
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Censorship is the mother of metaphor.
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Happy are the beloved and the lovers and those who can live without love.
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When I feel I’m going to write something, then I just am quiet and I try to listen. Then something comes through. And I do what I can in order not to tamper with it.
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When you reach my age, you realize you couldn’t have done things very much better or much worse than you did them in the first place.
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