In my next life I will try to commit more errors.
JORGE LUIS BORGESDon’t talk unless you can improve the silence.
More Jorge Luis Borges Quotes
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It also occurred to him that throughout history, humankind has told two stories: the story of a lost ship sailing the Mediterranean seas in quest of a beloved isle, and the story of a god who allows himself to be crucified on Golgotha.
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Another school declares that all time has already transpired and that our life is only the crepuscular and no doubt falsified and mutilated memory or reflection of an irrecoverable process.
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Every novel is an ideal plane inserted into the realm of reality.
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You have wakened not out of sleep, but into a prior dream, and that dream lies within another, and so on, to infinity, which is the number of grains of sand. The path that you are to take is endless, and you will die before you have truly awakened.
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Truth never penetrates an unwilling mind.
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While we are asleep in this world, we are awake in another one.
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Do you want to see what human eyes have never seen? Look at the moon. Do you want to hear what ears have never heard? Listen to the bird’s cry. Do you want to touch what hands have never touched? Touch the earth. Verily I say that God is about to create the world.
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The heresies we should fear are those which can be confused with orthodoxy.
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When you come right down to it, opinions are the most superficial things about anyone.
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A book is not an isolated being: it is a relationship, an axis of innumerable relationships
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Poetry remembers that it was an oral art before it was a written art.
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Time, which despoils castles, enriches verses.
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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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Everything touches everything.
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Art is very mysterious. I wonder if you can really do any damage to art. I think that when we’re writing, something comes through or should come through, in spite of our theories. So theories are not really important.
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