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Inspirational Quotes by Jorge Luis Borges
- Reality is not always probable, or likely.
- Poetry remembers that it was an oral art before it was a written art.
- My undertaking is not difficult, essentially. I should only have to be immortal to carry it out.
- 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.
- Writing is nothing more than a guided dream.
- Nothing is built on stone; all is built on sand, but we must build as if the sand were stone.
- Life itself is a quotation.
- To die for a religion is easier than to live it absolutely.
- The original is unfaithful to the translation.
- In general, every country has the language it deserves.
- La duda es uno de los nombres de la inteligencia.
- Every writer creates his own precursors. His work modifies our conception of the past, as it will modify the future.
- Reality is partial to symmetry and slight anachronisms
- For myth is at the beginning of literature, and also at its end.
- Doubt is one of the names of intelligence.
- This web of time--the strands of which approach one another, bifurcate, intersect or ignore eachother through the centuries--embrace every posibility.
- Time broadens the scope of verses and I know of some which, like music, are everything for all men.
- When writers die they become books, which is, after all, not too bad an incarnation.
- I saw all the mirrors on earth and none of them reflected me.
- If space is infinite, we may be at any point in space. If time is infinite, we may be at any point in time.
- Soccer is popular because stupidity is popular.
- A writer's work is the product of laziness.
- Time is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire.
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