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.
JORGE LUIS BORGESIf I were asked to name the chief event in my life, I should say my father’s library.
More Jorge Luis Borges Quotes
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What will die with me when I die, what pathetic or fragile form will the world lose?
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Each thing implies the universe.
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The possibilities of the art of combination are not infinite, but they tend to be frightful.
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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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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 nothing in the world that is not mysterious, but the mystery is more evident in certain things than in others: in the sea, in the eyes of the elders, in the color yellow, and in music.
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Art is endless like a river flowing, passing, yet remaining.
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I walk slowly, like one who comes from so far away he doesn’t expect to arrive.
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Life itself is a quotation.
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The truth is that we live out our lives putting off all that can be put off; perhaps we all know deep down that we are immortal and that sooner or later all men will do and know all things.
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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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Time is the tiger that devours me, but I am that tiger.
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Every man should be capable of all ideas.
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I cannot sleep unless I am surrounded by books.
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You can’t measure time by days, the way you measure money by dollars and cents, because dollars are all the same while every day is different and maybe every hour as well.
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