Nothing is built on stone; all is built on sand, but we must build as if the sand were stone.
JORGE LUIS BORGESBeyond my anxiety, beyond this writing, the universe waits, inexhaustible, inviting.
More Jorge Luis Borges Quotes
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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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The word happiness exists in every language; it is plausible the thing itself exists.
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Each thing implies the universe.
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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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In our dreams (writes Coleridge) images represent the sensations we think they cause; we do not feel horror because we are threatened by a sphinx; we dream of a sphinx in order to explain the horror we feel.
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I cannot walk through the suburbs in the solitude of the night without thinking that the night pleases us because it suppresses idle details, just as our memory does.
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Reality is not always probable, or likely.
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He consorted with prostitutes and poets and with persons even worse.
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In general, every country has the language it deserves.
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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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The heresies we should fear are those which can be confused with orthodoxy.
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When I feel I’m going to write something, then I just am quiet and I try to listen. Then something comes through. And I do what I can in order not to tamper with 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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I have sometimes suspected that the only thing that holds no mystery is happiness, because it is its own justification.
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The future is inevitable and precise, but it may not occur. God lurks in the gaps.
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A poet is a discoverer rather than an inventor.
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Many of the characters are fools and they’re always playing tricks on me and treating me badly.
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The flattery of posterity is not worth much more than contemporary flattery, which is worth nothing.
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May Heaven exist, even if my place is Hell.
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The mightiest love was granted him Love that does not expect to be loved.
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I have committed the worst of sins one can commit. I have not been happy.
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How can we manage to illuminate the pathos of our lives?
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The central fact of my life has been the existence of words and the possibility of weaving those words into poetry.
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He was very religious; he believed that he had a secret pact with God which exempted him from doing good in exchange for prayers and piety.
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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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Time forks perpetually toward innumerable futures.
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