I believe books will never disappear. It is impossible for it to happen. Of all man’s diverse tools, undoubtedly the most astounding are his books… If books were to disappear, history would disappear. So would man.
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 things that are said in literature are always the same. What is important is the way they are said.
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Censorship is the mother of metaphor.
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Time can’t be measured in days the way money is measured in pesos and centavos, because all pesos are equal, while every day, perhaps every hour, is different.
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Loneliness does not worry me; life is difficult enough, putting up with yourself and with your own habits.
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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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Whoever would undertake some atrocious enterprise should act as if it were already accomplished should impose upon himself a future as irrevocable as the past.
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There is an hour of the afternoon when the plain is on the verge of saying something. It never says, or perhaps it says it infinitely, or perhaps we do not understand it, or we understand it and it is untranslatable as music.
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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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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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Dictatorships foster oppression, dictatorships foster servitude, dictatorships foster cruelty; more abominable is the fact that they foster idiocy.
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The Falklands thing was a fight between two bald men over a comb.
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In general, every country has the language it deserves.
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Israelites, Christians and Muslims profess immortality, but the veneration they render this world proves they believe only in it, since they destine all other worlds, in infinite number, to be its reward or punishment.
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In all fiction, when a man is faced with alternatives he chooses one at the expense of others.
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You may win your heart’s desire, but in the end you’re cheated of it by death.
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