A man sets himself the task of portraying the world. Shortly before he dies he discovers that this patient labyrinth of lines is a drawing of his own face.
JORGE LUIS BORGESWhoever would undertake some atrocious enterprise should act as if it were already accomplished should impose upon himself a future as irrevocable as the past.
More Jorge Luis Borges Quotes
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We have stopped believing in progress. What progress that is !
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Only in the present do things happen.
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Time forks perpetually toward innumerable futures.
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In general, every country has the language it deserves.
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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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We have a very precise image – an image at times shameless – of what we have lost, but we are ignorant of what may follow or replace it.
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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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I foresee that man will resign himself each day to new abominations, and soon that only bandits and soldiers will be left.
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A book is not an isolated being: it is a relationship, an axis of innumerable relationships
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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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Reality favors symmetry.
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Man’s memory shapes Its own Eden within.
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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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For me, beauty is a physical sensation, something we feel with our whole body. It is not the result of judgement. We do not arrive at it by way of rules. We either feel beauty or we don’t.
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There is no point in being overwhelmed by the appalling total of human sufferring; such a total does not exist. Neither poverty nor pain is accumulable.
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