Jorge Luis Borges Quotes

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• Reality is not always probable, or likely.
• 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…
• Democracy is an abuse of statistics.
• I foresee that man will resign himself each day to new abominations, and soon that only bandits and soldiers will be left.
• Poetry remembers that it was an oral art before it was a written art.
• Art always opts for the individual, the concrete; art is not Platonic.
• My undertaking is not difficult, essentially. I should only have to be immortal to carry it out.
• Reading is an activity subsequent to writing: more resigned, more civil, more intellectual.
• The central problem of novel-writing is causality.
• The Falklands thing was a fight between two bald men over a comb.
• The flattery of posterity is not worth much more than contemporary flattery, which is worth nothing.
• I have known uncertainty: a state unknown to the Greeks.
• Life and death have been lacking in my life.
• Like all those possessing a library, Aurelian was aware that he was guilty of not knowing his in its entirety.
• Writing is nothing more than a guided dream.
• 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…
• 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…
• Nothing is built on stone; all is built on sand, but we must build as if the sand were stone.
• I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.
• Life itself is a quotation.

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