Whoever would undertake some atrocious enterprise should act as if it were already accomplished should impose upon himself a future as irrevocable as the past.
JORGE LUIS BORGESPerhaps the apparent favor of the universe is no more than the crocodile grin of a Doberman breathing hard and about to be hungry?
More Jorge Luis Borges Quotes
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When writers die they become books, which is, after all, not too bad an incarnation.
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Democracy is an abuse of statistics.
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Being with you and not being with you is the only way I have to measure time.
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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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To be immortal is commonplace; except for man, all creatures are immortal, for they are ignorant of death; what is divine, terrible, incomprehensible, is to know that one is immortal.
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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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If I were asked to name the chief event in my life, I should say my father’s library.
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To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.
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When I wake up, I wake to something worse. It’s the astonishment of being myself.
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The tango is a direct expression of something that poets have often tried to state in words: the belief that a fight may be a celebration.
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The future is as irrevocable as an inflexible yesterday.
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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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In all fiction, when a man is faced with alternatives he chooses one at the expense of others.
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Truth never penetrates an unwilling mind.
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A writer should have another lifetime to see if he’s appreciated.
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How can we manage to illuminate the pathos of our lives?
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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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When you come right down to it, opinions are the most superficial things about anyone.
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Reality favors symmetry.
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What you really value is what you miss, not what you have.
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I cannot walk through the suburbs in the solitude of the night without thinking that the night pleases us because it suppresses idle details, just as our memory does.
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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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Every man should be capable of all ideas.
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I saw all the mirrors on earth and none of them reflected me.
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You may win your heart’s desire, but in the end you’re cheated of it by death.
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