The minotaur more than justifies the existence of the labyrinth.
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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I had always thought of Paradise / In form and image as a library.
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The flattery of posterity is not worth much more than contemporary flattery, which is worth nothing.
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Reality is partial to symmetry and slight anachronisms
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The word happiness exists in every language; it is plausible the thing itself exists.
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To die for a religion is easier than to live it absolutely.
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The future is inevitable and precise, but it may not occur. God lurks in the gaps.
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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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There is nothing in the world that is not mysterious, but the mystery is more evident in certain things than in others: in the sea, in the eyes of the elders, in the color yellow, and in music.
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I am almost sure to be blotted out by death, but sometimes I think it is not impossible that I may continue to live in some other manner after my physical death . Or, as Hamlet wonders, what dreams will come when we leave this body?
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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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Being with you and not being with you is the only way I have to measure time.
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Truth never penetrates an unwilling mind.
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I am not sure that I exist, actually. I am all the writers that I have read, all the people that I have met, all the women that I have loved; all the cities I have visited.
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We have stopped believing in progress. What progress that is !
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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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