If I were asked to name the chief event in my life, I should say my father’s library.
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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In all fiction, when a man is faced with alternatives he chooses one at the expense of others.
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To arrange a library is to practice in a quiet and modest way the art of criticism.
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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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Time forks perpetually toward innumerable futures.
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The sea is an idiom I cannot decipher.
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Everything touches everything.
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One concept corrupts and confuses the others. I am not speaking of the Evil whose limited sphere is ethics; I am speaking of the infinite.
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My books standing there on the shelf do not know that I have written them.
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The dictionary is based on the hypothesis — obviously an unproven one — that languages are made up of equivalent synonyms.
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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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Every man should be capable of all ideas.
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Only in the present do things happen.
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The future has no other reality than as present hope, and the past is no more than present memory.
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Creativity is suspended between memory and forgetting.
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Time is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire.
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