Man’s memory shapes Its own Eden within.
JORGE LUIS BORGESI have committed the worst of sins one can commit. I have not been happy.
More Jorge Luis Borges Quotes
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We accept reality so readily – perhaps because we sense that nothing is real.
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It means much to have loved, to have been happy, to have laid my hand on the living Garden, even for a day.
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My undertaking is not difficult, essentially. I should only have to be immortal to carry it out.
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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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Truth never penetrates an unwilling mind.
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I never reread what I’ve written. I’m far too afraid to feel ashamed of what I’ve done.
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Beyond my anxiety, beyond this writing, the universe waits, inexhaustible, inviting.
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It is clear that there is no classification of the Universe that is not arbitrary and full of conjectures. The reason for this is very simple: we do not know what kind of thing the universe is.
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Perhaps the apparent favor of the universe is no more than the crocodile grin of a Doberman breathing hard and about to be hungry?
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The earth we inhabit is an error, an incompetent parody. Mirrors and paternity are abominable because they multiply and affirm it.
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It’s a shame that we have to choose between two such second-rate countries as the USSR and the USA.
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Doubt is one of the names of intelligence.
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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.
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Then I reflect that all things happen, happen to one, precisely now. Century follows century, and things happen only in the present. There are countless men in the air, on land and at sea, and all that really happens happens to me.
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Time is the substance from which I am made. Time is a river which carries me along, but I am the river; it is a tiger that devours me, but I am the tiger; it is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire.
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