I have committed the worst of sins one can commit. I have not been happy.
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More Jorge Luis Borges Quotes
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I saw all the mirrors on earth and none of them reflected me.
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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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Democracy is an abuse of statistics.
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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.
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The dictionary is based on the hypothesis — obviously an unproven one — that languages are made up of equivalent synonyms.
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In general, every country has the language it deserves.
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I cannot sleep unless I am surrounded by books.
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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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To arrange a library is to practice in a quiet and modest way the art of criticism.
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I ask of any God, of any gods, that if they give immortality, I hope to be granted oblivion also.
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Life itself is a quotation.
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Censorship is the mother of metaphor.
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Time forks perpetually toward innumerable futures.
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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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Only in the present do things happen.
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