I can give you my loneliness, my darkness, the hunger of my heart, I am trying to bribe you with uncertainty, with danger, with defeat.
JORGE LUIS BORGESThe man who acquires an encyclopedia does not thereby acquire every line, every paragraph, every page, and every illustration; he acquires the possibility of becoming familiar with one and another of those things.
More Jorge Luis Borges Quotes
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Time, which despoils castles, enriches verses.
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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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Films are even stranger, for what we are seeing are not disguised people but photographs of disguised people, and yet we believe them while the film is being shown.
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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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When you come right down to it, opinions are the most superficial things about anyone.
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One concept corrupts and confuses the others. I am not speaking of the Evil whose limited sphere is ethics; I am speaking of the infinite.
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When I write, I do it urged by an intimate necessity. I don’t have in mind an exclusive public, or a public of multitudes, I don’t think in either thing. I think about expressing what I want to say. I try to do it in the simplest way possible.
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Man’s memory shapes Its own Eden within.
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The future is as irrevocable as an inflexible yesterday.
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My undertaking is not difficult, essentially. I should only have to be immortal to carry it out.
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Reality is not always probable, or likely.
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I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.
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The mightiest love was granted him Love that does not expect to be loved.
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I gazed at every mirror on the planet, not one gave back my reflection.
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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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