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Being an agnostic means all t...

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 not happen. Being an agnostic makes me live in a larger, a more fantastic kind of world, almost uncanny. It makes me more tolerant.

Jorge Luis Borges 386 quotes

Any life, however long and co...

Any life, however long and complicated it may be, actually consists of a single moment — the moment when a man knows forever more who he is.

Jorge Luis Borges 386 quotes

If space is infinite, we may ...

If space is infinite, we may be at any point in space. If time is infinite, we may be at any point in time.

Jorge Luis Borges 386 quotes

He was very religious; he bel...

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

Dictatorships foster oppressi...

Dictatorships foster oppression, dictatorships foster servitude, dictatorships foster cruelty; more abominable is the fact that they foster idiocy.

Jorge Luis Borges 386 quotes

While we are asleep in this w...

While we are asleep in this world, we are awake in another one

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I am not sure that I exist, a...

I am not sure that I exist, actually. I am all the writers that I have read, all the people that I have met, all the women that I have loved; all the cities I have visited.

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So plant your own gardens and...

So plant your own gardens and decorate your own soul, instead of waiting for someone to bring you flowers.

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Soccer is popular because stu...

Soccer is popular because stupidity is popular.

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I have committed the worst of...

I have committed the worst of sins one can commit... I have not been happy.

Jorge Luis Borges 386 quotes

The future has no other reali...

The future has no other reality than as present hope, and the past is no more than present memory.

Jorge Luis Borges 386 quotes

I cannot sleep unless I am su...

I cannot sleep unless I am surrounded by books.

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The task of art is to transfo...

The task of art is to transform what is continuously happening to us, to transform all of these things into symbols, into music, into something which can last in man’s memory. That is our duty. If we don’t fulfill it, we feel unhappy.

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Don't talk unless you can imp...

Don't talk unless you can improve the silence.

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Time is a fire that consumes ...

Time is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire.

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From my weakness, I drew stre...

From my weakness, I drew strength that never left me.

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I am not sure of anything, I ...

I am not sure of anything, I know nothing . . . can you imagine that I don't even know the date of my own death?

Jorge Luis Borges 386 quotes

Creativity is suspended betwe...

Creativity is suspended between memory and forgetting.

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Art is endless like a river f...

Art is endless like a river flowing, passing, yet remaining.

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I have preferred to teach my ...

I have preferred to teach my students not English literature but my love for certain authors, or, even better, certain pages, or even better than that, certain lines. One falls in love with a line, then with a page, then with an author. Well, why not? It is a beautiful process.

Jorge Luis Borges 386 quotes

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