Reality is not always probable, or likely.
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More Jorge Luis Borges Quotes
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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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Time can’t be measured in days the way money is measured in pesos and centavos, because all pesos are equal, while every day, perhaps every hour, is different.
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We forget that we are all dead men conversing with dead men.
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The heresies we should fear are those which can be confused with orthodoxy.
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So plant your own gardens and decorate your own soul, instead of waiting for someone to bring you flowers.
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Writing long books is a laborious and impoverishing act of foolishness: expanding in five hundred pages an idea that could be perfectly explained in a few minutes. A better procedure is to pretend that those books already exist and to offer a summary, a commentary.
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The central fact of my life has been the existence of words and the possibility of weaving those words into poetry.
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Writing is nothing more than a guided dream.
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In adultery, there is usually tenderness and self-sacrifice; in murder, courage; in profanation and blasphemy, a certain satanic splendour. Judas elected those offences unvisited by any virtues: abuse of confidence and informing.
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The visible universe was an illusion or, more precisely, a sophism. Mirrors and fatherhood are abominable because they multiply it and extend it.
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If space is infinite, we may be at any point in space. If time is infinite, we may be at any point in time.
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We accept reality so readily – perhaps because we sense that nothing is real.
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Poets, like the blind, can see in the dark.
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In general, every country has the language it deserves.
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We have stopped believing in progress. What progress that is !
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