Democracy is an abuse of statistics.
JORGE LUIS BORGESWhen I wake up, I wake to something worse. It’s the astonishment of being myself.
More Jorge Luis Borges Quotes
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The future is inevitable and precise, but it may not occur. God lurks in the gaps.
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What you really value is what you miss, not what you have.
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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 task of art is to transform what is continuously happening to us, to transform all of these things into symbols, into music, into something which can last in man’s memory. That is our duty. If we don’t fulfill it, we feel unhappy.
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Reality is partial to symmetry and slight anachronisms
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The future has no other reality than as present hope, and the past is no more than present memory.
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Being an agnostic means all things are possible, even God, even the Holy Trinity. This world is so strange that anything may happen, or may not happen. Being an agnostic makes me live in a larger, a more fantastic kind of world, almost uncanny. It makes me more tolerant.
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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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When writers die they become books, which is, after all, not too bad an incarnation.
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From my weakness, I drew strength that never left me.
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Another school declares that all time has already transpired and that our life is only the crepuscular and no doubt falsified and mutilated memory or reflection of an irrecoverable process.
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Life itself is a quotation.
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Censorship is the mother of metaphor.
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I ask of any God, of any gods, that if they give immortality, I hope to be granted oblivion also.
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The Falklands thing was a fight between two bald men over a comb.
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