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The future is inevitable and p...

The future is inevitable and precise, but it may not occur. God lurks in the gaps.

Jorge Luis Borges 386 quotes

When one confesses to an act, ...

When one confesses to an act, one ceases to be an actor in it and becomes its witness, becomes a man that observes and narrates it and no longer the man that performed it.

Jorge Luis Borges 386 quotes

The man who acquires an encycl...

The man who acquires an encyclopedia does not thereby acquire every line, every paragraph, every page, and every illustration; he acquires the possibility of becoming familiar with one and another of those things.

Jorge Luis Borges 386 quotes

Nowadays, one of the churches ...

Nowadays, one of the churches of TlГ¶n maintains platonically that such and such a pain, such and such a greenish-yellow colour, such and such a temperature, such and such a sound, etc., make up the only reality there is. All men, in the climactic instant of coitus, are the same man. All men who repeat one line of Shakespeare are William Shakespeare.

Jorge Luis Borges 386 quotes

Yo, que me figuraba el ParaГ­s...

Yo, que me figuraba el ParaГ­so / Bajo la especie de una biblioteca. I have always imagined Paradise as a kind of library.

Jorge Luis Borges 386 quotes

I owe the discovery of Uqbar t...

I owe the discovery of Uqbar to the conjunction of a mirror and an encyclopedia.

Jorge Luis Borges 386 quotes

I foresee that man will resign...

I foresee that man will resign himself each day to more atrocious undertakings; soon there will be no one but warriors and brigands; I give them this counsel: The author of an atrocious undertaking ought to imagine that he has already accomplished it, ought to impose upon himself a future as irrevocable as the past.

Jorge Luis Borges 386 quotes

It is clear that there is no c...

It is clear that there is no classification of the Universe that is not arbitrary and full of conjectures. The reason for this is very simple: we do not know what kind of thing the universe is.

Jorge Luis Borges 386 quotes

The minotaur more than justifi...

The minotaur more than justifies the existence of the labyrinth .

Jorge Luis Borges 386 quotes

Fame is a form, perhaps the wo...

Fame is a form, perhaps the worst form, of incomprehension.

Jorge Luis Borges 386 quotes

There is no point in being ove...

There is no point in being overwhelmed by the appalling total of human sufferring; such a total does not exist. Neither poverty nor pain is accumulable.

Jorge Luis Borges 386 quotes

Every man should be capable of...

Every man should be capable of all ideas.

Jorge Luis Borges 386 quotes

Death is just infinity closing...

Death is just infinity closing in.

Jorge Luis Borges 386 quotes

We are our memory, we are that...

We are our memory, we are that chimerical museum of shifting shapes, that pile of broken mirrors.

Jorge Luis Borges 386 quotes

Another school declares that a...

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 reflection of an irrecoverable process.

Jorge Luis Borges 386 quotes

The art of writing is mysterio...

The art of writing is mysterious, the opinions we hold are ephemeral....

Jorge Luis Borges 386 quotes

The dictionary is based on the...

The dictionary is based on the hypothesis -- obviously an unproven one -- that languages are made up of equivalent synonyms.

Jorge Luis Borges 386 quotes

It's a shame that we have to c...

It's a shame that we have to choose between two such second-rate countries as the USSR and the USA.

Jorge Luis Borges 386 quotes

Emma dropped the paper. Her fi...

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, of coldness, of fear; then she wished that it were already the next day. Immediately afterwards she realized that that wish was futile because the death of her father was the only thing that had happened in the world, and it would go on happening endlessly.

Jorge Luis Borges 386 quotes

He was very religious; he beli...

He was very religious; he believed that he had a secret pact with God which exempted him from doing good in exchange for prayers and piety.

Jorge Luis Borges 386 quotes

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