The future is as irrevocable as an inflexible yesterday.
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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Nothing is built on stone; all is built on sand, but we must build as if the sand were stone.
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To die for a religion is easier than to live it absolutely.
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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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We forget that we are all dead men conversing with dead men.
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In general, every country has the language it deserves.
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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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I foresee that man will resign himself each day to new abominations, and soon that only bandits and soldiers will be left.
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Only in the present do things happen.
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What I’m really concerned about is reaching one person. And that person may be myself for all I know.
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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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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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Time, which despoils castles, enriches verses.
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Creativity is suspended between memory and forgetting.
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Do you want to see what human eyes have never seen? Look at the moon. Do you want to hear what ears have never heard? Listen to the bird’s cry. Do you want to touch what hands have never touched? Touch the earth. Verily I say that God is about to create the world.
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Time is the tiger that devours me, but I am that tiger.
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