Soccer is popular because stupidity is popular.
JORGE LUIS BORGESThe minotaur more than justifies the existence of the labyrinth.
More Jorge Luis Borges Quotes
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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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I am almost sure to be blotted out by death, but sometimes I think it is not impossible that I may continue to live in some other manner after my physical death . Or, as Hamlet wonders, what dreams will come when we leave this body?
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A writer’s work is the product of laziness.
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Only in the present do things happen.
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The task of art is to transform what is continuously happening to us, to transform all of these things into symbols, into music, into something which can last in man’s memory. That is our duty. If we don’t fulfill it, we feel unhappy.
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Creativity is suspended between memory and forgetting.
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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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I believe books will never disappear. It is impossible for it to happen. Of all man’s diverse tools, undoubtedly the most astounding are his books… If books were to disappear, history would disappear. So would man.
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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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Dictatorships foster oppression, dictatorships foster servitude, dictatorships foster cruelty; more abominable is the fact that they foster idiocy.
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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 saw a sunset in Queretaro that seemed to reflect the color of a rose in Bengal.
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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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I have preferred to teach my students not English literature but my love for certain authors, or, even better, certain pages, or even better than that, certain lines. One falls in love with a line, then with a page, then with an author. Well, why not? It is a beautiful process.
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Time forks perpetually toward innumerable futures.
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We are our memory, we are that chimerical museum of shifting shapes, that pile of broken mirrors.
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Doubt is one of the names of intelligence.
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The worst labyrinth is not that intricate form that can entrap us forever, but a single and precise straight line.
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The flattery of posterity is not worth much more than contemporary flattery, which is worth nothing.
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Every novel is an ideal plane inserted into the realm of reality.
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We accept reality so readily – perhaps because we sense that nothing is real.
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I suppose identity depends on memory. And if my memory is blotted out, then I wonder if I exist – I mean, if I am the same person. Of course, I don’t have to solve that problem. It’s up to God, if any.
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Time, which despoils castles, enriches verses.
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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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What you really value is what you miss, not what you have.
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Poets, like the blind, can see in the dark.
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