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.
JORGE LUIS BORGESYou 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.
More Jorge Luis Borges Quotes
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Don’t talk unless you can improve the silence.
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I think most people are more important than their opinions.
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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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Doubt is one of the names of intelligence.
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Perhaps the apparent favor of the universe is no more than the crocodile grin of a Doberman breathing hard and about to be hungry?
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In Spanish it is very difficult to make things flow, because words are over-long. But in English, you have light words.
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Let others pride themselves about how many pages they have written; I’d rather boast about the ones I’ve read.
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Writing is nothing more than a guided dream.
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Beyond my anxiety, beyond this writing, the universe waits, inexhaustible, inviting.
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How can we manage to illuminate the pathos of our lives?
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The future is inevitable and precise, but it may not occur. God lurks in the gaps.
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Soccer is popular because stupidity is popular.
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I am not sure of anything, I know nothing. Can you imagine that I don’t even know the date of my own death?
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We accept reality so readily – perhaps because we sense that nothing is real.
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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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