Truth never penetrates an unwilling mind.
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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Only in the present do things happen.
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Censorship is the mother of metaphor.
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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 heresies we should fear are those which can be confused with orthodoxy.
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I thought that a man can be an enemy of other men, of the moments of other men, but not of a country: not of fireflies, words, gardens, streams of water, sunsets.
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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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A writer – and, I believe, generally all persons – must think that whatever happens to him or her is a resource.
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What a writer wants to do is not what he does.
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I cannot sleep unless I am surrounded by books.
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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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I have always come to life after coming to books.
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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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Democracy is an abuse of statistics.
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Reality is partial to symmetry and slight anachronisms
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The future has no other reality than as present hope, and the past is no more than present memory.
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