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Only Quotes by Jorge Luis Borges
- I foresee that man will resign himself each day to new abominations, and soon that only bandits and soldiers will be left.
- My undertaking is not difficult, essentially. I should only have to be immortal to carry it out.
- Any time something is written against me, I not only share the sentiment but feel I could do the job far better myself. Perhaps I…
- This felicitous supposition declared that there is only one Individual, and that this indivisible Individual is every one of the separate beings in the universe,…
- Only in the present do things happen.
- Israelites, Christians and Muslims profess immortality, but the veneration they render this world proves they believe only in it, since they destine all other worlds,…
- Then I reflect that all things happen, happen to one, precisely now. Century follows century, and things happen only in the present. There are countless…
- Being with you and not being with you is the only way I have to measure time.
- Another school declares that all time has already transpired and that our life is only the crepuscular and no doubt falsified and mutilated memory or…
- Emma dropped the paper. Her first impression was of a weak feeling in her stomach and in her knees; then of blind guilt, of unreality,…
- As the end approaches, there are no longer any images from memory - there are only words.
- It only takes two facing mirrors to build a labyrinth.
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