The 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.
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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A writer – and, I believe, generally all persons – must think that whatever happens to him or her is a resource.
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I suppose identity depends on memory. And if my memory is blotted out, then I wonder if I exist – I mean, if I am the same person. Of course, I don’t have to solve that problem. It’s up to God, if any.
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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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Being with you and not being with you is the only way I have to measure time.
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The visible universe was an illusion or, more precisely, a sophism. Mirrors and fatherhood are abominable because they multiply it and extend it.
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I believe that in time we will have reached the point where we will deserve to be free of government.
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Heaven and hell seem out of proportion to me: the actions of men do not deserve so much.
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I have always come to life after coming to books.
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Soccer is popular because stupidity is popular.
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I might accept immortality, if I had to do it. But I would prefer – if there is any afterlife – to know nothing whatever about Borges, about his experiences in this world.
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Reality is not always probable, or likely.
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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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The worst labyrinth is not that intricate form that can entrap us forever, but a single and precise straight line.
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Writing is nothing more than a guided dream.
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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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