Time is the substance from which I am made. Time is a river which carries me along, but I am the river; it is a tiger that devours me, but I am the tiger; it is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire.
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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I ask of any God, of any gods, that if they give immortality, I hope to be granted oblivion also.
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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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Time, which despoils castles, enriches verses.
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To die for a religion is easier than to live it absolutely.
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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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While we are asleep in this world, we are awake in another one.
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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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Poets, like the blind, can see in the dark.
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I have preferred to teach my students not English literature but my love for certain authors, or, even better, certain pages, or even better than that, certain lines. One falls in love with a line, then with a page, then with an author. Well, why not? It is a beautiful process.
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It means much to have loved, to have been happy, to have laid my hand on the living Garden, even for a day.
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Time forks perpetually toward innumerable futures.
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I think of reading a book as no less an experience than travelling or falling in love.
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When one confesses to an act, one ceases to be an actor in it and becomes its witness, becomes a man that observes and narrates it and no longer the man that performed it.
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We have a very precise image – an image at times shameless – of what we have lost, but we are ignorant of what may follow or replace it.
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Reality may avoid the obligation to be interesting, but hypotheses may not.
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