World Quotes by Jorge Luis Borges

22 World quotes by Jorge Luis Borges

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Borges’ 22 snippets blend philosophy and imagination, offering a compact glimpse into his labyrinthine mind.

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The machinery of the world is far too complex for the simplicity of men.

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While we are asleep in this world, we are awake in another one

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“In this world, beauty is so common.”

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The mind was dreaming. The world was its dream.

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I live in a grey world, rather like the silver screen world. But yellow stands out.

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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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A man sets himself the task of portraying the world. Shortly before he dies he discovers that this patient labyrinth of lines…

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A book is a physical object in a world of physical objects. It is a set of dead symbols. And then the…

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No one is anyone, one single immortal man is all men. Like Cornelius Agrippa, I am god, I am hero, I am…

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Do you want to see what human eyes have never seen? Look at the moon. Do you want to hear what ears…

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I thought of a labyrinth of labyrinths, of one sinuous spreading labyrinth that would encompass the past and the future . .…

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I, who have been so many men in vain, want to be one man, myself alone. From out of a whirlwind the…

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I might accept immortality, if I had to do it. But I would prefer - if there is any afterlife - to…

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I came to the idea of how fine it would be to think of an encyclopedia of an actual world, and then…

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The great American writer Herman Melville says somewhere in The White Whale that a man ought to be 'a patriot to heaven,'…

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Two aesthetics exist: the passive aesthetic of mirrors and the active aesthetic of prisms. Guided by the former, art turns into a…

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Emma dropped the paper. Her first impression was of a weak feeling in her stomach and in her knees; then of blind…

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A man sets out to draw the world. As the years go by, he peoples a space with images of provinces, kingdoms,…

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We (the indivisible divinity that works in us) have dreamed the world . We have dreamed it resistant, mysterious, visible, ubiquitous in…

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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…

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Israelites, Christians and Muslims profess immortality, but the veneration they render this world proves they believe only in it, since they destine…

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What will die with me the day I die? What pathetic or frail image will be lost to the world? The voice…

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“My memory, sir, is like a garbage disposal.”

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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,…

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The mind was dreaming. The world was its dream.

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I foresee that man will resign himself each day to new abominations, and soon that only bandits and soldiers will be left.

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