Best Quotes by Jorge Luis Borges (Top 10)
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I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.
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I am not sure that I exist, actually. I am all the writers that I have read, all the people that I have met, all the women that I have loved; all the cities I have visited.
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I cannot sleep unless I am surrounded by books.
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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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I can give you my loneliness, my darkness, the hunger of my heart, I am trying to bribe you with uncertainty, with danger, with defeat.
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To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.
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So plant your own gardens and decorate your own soul, instead of waiting for someone to bring you flowers.
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Don't talk unless you can improve the silence.
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The mind was dreaming. The world was its dream.
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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.
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More Jorge Luis Borges Quotes
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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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Reality is not always probable, or likely.
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Life itself is a quotation.
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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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Writing is nothing more than a guided dream.
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The original is unfaithful to the translation.
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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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To die for a religion is easier than to live it absolutely.
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We accept reality so readily - perhaps because we sense that nothing is real.
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Any life is made up of a single moment, the moment in which a man finds out, once and for all, who he is.
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The fact is that poetry is not the books in the library . . . Poetry is the encounter of the reader with the book, the discovery of the book.
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Like all those possessing a library, Aurelian was aware that he was guilty of not knowing his in its entirety.
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The future is inevitable and precise, but it may not occur. God lurks in the gaps.
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What you really value is what you miss, not what you have.
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May Heaven exist, even if my place is Hell.
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Any life, however long and complicated it may be, actually consists of a single moment " the moment when a man knows forever more who he is.
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Doubt is one of the names of intelligence.
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There's no need to build a labyrinth when the entire universe is one.
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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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Reading is an activity subsequent to writing: more resigned, more civil, more intellectual.
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The central problem of novel-writing is causality.
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The Falklands thing was a fight between two bald men over a comb.
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My undertaking is not difficult, essentially. I should only have to be immortal to carry it out.
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...the image of the Lord had been replaced by a mirror
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There is a concept that is the corrupter and destroyer of all others. I speak not of Evil, whose limited empire is that of ethics; I speak of the infinite.
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Every novel is an ideal plane inserted into the realm of reality.
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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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Democracy is an abuse of statistics.
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I have known uncertainty: a state unknown to the Greeks.
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Literature is not exhaustible, for the sufficient and simple reason that a single book is not. A book is not an isolated entity: it is a narration, an axis of innumerable narrations. One literature differs from another, either before or after it, not so much because of the text as for the manner in which it is read.
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Like all writers, he measured the achievements of others by what they had accomplished, asking of them that they measure him by what he envisaged or planned.
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Any life, no matter how long and complex it may be, is made up of a single moment - the moment in which a man finds out, once and for all, who he is.
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Your unforgivable sins do not allow you to see my splendor
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The flattery of posterity is not worth much more than contemporary flattery, which is worth nothing.
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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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In general, every country has the language it deserves.
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