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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Reality is partial to symmetry and slight anachronisms
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There is no point in being overwhelmed by the appalling total of human sufferring; such a total does not exist. Neither poverty nor pain is accumulable.
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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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The tango is a direct expression of something that poets have often tried to state in words: the belief that a fight may be a celebration.
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We have stopped believing in progress. What progress that is !
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Life itself is a quotation.
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Time, which despoils castles, enriches verses.
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We accept reality so readily – perhaps because we sense that nothing is real.
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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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Time is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire.
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A system is nothing more than the subordination of all aspects of the universe to any one of such aspects.
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I walk slowly, like one who comes from so far away he doesn’t expect to arrive.
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A poet is a discoverer rather than an inventor.
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It means much to have loved, to have been happy, to have laid my hand on the living Garden, even for a day.
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The earth we inhabit is an error, an incompetent parody. Mirrors and paternity are abominable because they multiply and affirm it.
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