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May Quotes by Jorge Luis Borges
- 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,…
- Reality may avoid the obligation to be interesting, but ... hypotheses may not.
- You will reply that reality hasn't the slightest need to be of interest. And I'll answer you that reality may avoid the obligation to be…
- If space is infinite, we may be at any point in space. If time is infinite, we may be at any point in time.
- The tango is a direct expression of something that poets have often tried to state in words: the belief that a fight may be a…
- All that happens to us, including our humiliations, our misfortunes, our embarrassments, all is given to us as raw material, as clay, so that we…
- You may win your heart's desire, but in the end you're cheated of it by death.
- I am almost sure to be blotted out by death, but sometimes I think it is not impossible that I may continue to live in…
- It may be that universal history is the history of the different intonations given a handful of metaphors.
- He thought that the rose was to be found in its own eternity and not in his words; and that we may mention or allude…
- A writer - and, I believe, generally all persons - must think that whatever happens to him or her is a resource. All things have…
- 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…
- Any life, however long and complicated it may be, actually consists of a single moment — the moment when a man knows forever more who…
More May Quotes
- Economic growth may one day turn out to be a curse rather than a good, and under no conditions can it either… — Hannah Arendt
- The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the… — Hannah Arendt
- With a goose-quill and a few sheets of paper, I mock myself of the universe. They say I am the son of… — Pietro Aretino
- Sometimes people who want to understand Haiti from a political perspective may be missing part of the picture. They also need to… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever. — Aristophanes
- Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion. — Aristotle
- If one way be better than another, that you may be sure is nature's way. — Aristotle
- We make war that we may live in peace. — Aristotle
- Inferiors revolt in order that they may be equal, and equals that they may be superior. Such is the state of mind… — Aristotle
- It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those… — Aristotle
- Whether if soul did not exist time would exist or not, is a question that may fairly be asked; for if there… — Aristotle
- Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year, but eventually it will subside… — Lance Armstrong