Jorge Luis Borges Quotes
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Reality is not always probable, or likely.
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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…
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Democracy is an abuse of statistics.
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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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Poetry remembers that it was an oral art before it was a written art.
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Art always opts for the individual, the concrete; art is not Platonic.
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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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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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The flattery of posterity is not worth much more than contemporary flattery, which is worth nothing.
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I have known uncertainty: a state unknown to the Greeks.
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Life and death have been lacking in my life.
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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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Writing is nothing more than a guided dream.
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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…
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To be immortal is commonplace; except for man, all creatures are immortal, for they are ignorant of death; what is divine, terrible, incomprehensible, is to…
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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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I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.
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Life itself is a quotation.
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