Jorge Luis Borges Short Quotes

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May Heaven exist, even if my place is Hell.

Jorge Luis Borges
Writing is nothing more than a guided dream.

Jorge Luis Borges
The central problem of novel-writing is causality.

Jorge Luis Borges
I have known what the Greeks did not: uncertainty.

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Universal history is the history of a few metaphors.

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I have always imagined Paradise as a kind of library.

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A labyrinth of symbols... An invisible labyrinth of time.

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In all the world, one man has been born, one man has died.

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Your unforgivable sins do not allow you to see my splendor.

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To die for a religion is easier than to live it absolutely.

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Myth is at the beginning of literature, and also at its end.

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I have known that thing the Greeks knew not – uncertainty.

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We know that language is like the moon and has its dark side.

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My advanced age has taught me the resignation of being Borges.

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

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Poetry springs from something deeper; it's beyond intelligence.

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The minotaur more than justifies the existence of the labyrinth.

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To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.

Jorge Luis Borges
The Falklands thing was a fight between two bald men over a comb.

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A writer should have another lifetime to see if he's appreciated.

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Every novel is an ideal plane inserted into the realm of reality.

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There is no intellectual exercise which is not ultimately useless.

Jorge Luis Borges
In a riddle whose answer is chess, what is the only prohibited word?

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There's no need to build a labyrinth when the entire universe is one.

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I secretly assumed, as poets do,
The duty on me to define the moon.

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He consorted with prostitutes and poets...and with persons even worse.

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In life, he suffered from a sense of unreality, as do many Englishmen.

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Art always opts for the individual, the concrete; art is not Platonic.

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I leave to the various futures (not to all) my garden of forking paths.

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The machinery of the world is far too complex for the simplicity of men.

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