Nothing is built on stone; all is built on sand, but we must build as if the sand were stone.
JORGE LUIS BORGESWe forget that we are all dead men conversing with dead men.
More Jorge Luis Borges Quotes
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Israelites, Christians and Muslims profess immortality, but the veneration they render this world proves they believe only in it, since they destine all other worlds, in infinite number, to be its reward or punishment.
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The sea is an idiom I cannot decipher.
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Writing is nothing more than a guided dream.
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A writer’s work is the product of laziness.
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I believe that in time we will have reached the point where we will deserve to be free of government.
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When one confesses to an act, one ceases to be an actor in it and becomes its witness, becomes a man that observes and narrates it and no longer the man that performed it.
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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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In all fiction, when a man is faced with alternatives he chooses one at the expense of others.
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The mind was dreaming. The world was its dream.
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I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.
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It’s a shame that we have to choose between two such second-rate countries as the USSR and the USA.
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We forget that we are all dead men conversing with dead men.
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The truth is that we live out our lives putting off all that can be put off; perhaps we all know deep down that we are immortal and that sooner or later all men will do and know all things.
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He consorted with prostitutes and poets and with persons even worse.
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There’s no need to build a labyrinth when the entire universe is one.
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