The mightiest love was granted him Love that does not expect to be loved.
JORGE LUIS BORGESI do not write for a select minority, which means nothing to me, nor for that adulated platonic entity known as ‘The Masses’. Both abstractions, so dear to the demagogue, I disbelieve in. I write for myself and for my friends, and I write to ease the passing of time.
More Jorge Luis Borges Quotes
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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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I can give you my loneliness, my darkness, the hunger of my heart, I am trying to bribe you with uncertainty, with danger, with defeat.
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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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Reality favors symmetry.
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I have committed the worst of sins one can commit. I have not been happy.
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Don’t talk unless you can improve the silence.
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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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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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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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May Heaven exist, even if my place is Hell.
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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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To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.
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For me, beauty is a physical sensation, something we feel with our whole body. It is not the result of judgement. We do not arrive at it by way of rules. We either feel beauty or we don’t.
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I cannot sleep unless I am surrounded by books.
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We forget that we are all dead men conversing with dead men.
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