34 ordspråk av Jorge Luis Borges
Jorge Luis Borges
...the image of the Lord had been replaced by a mirror.
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Any life is made up of a single moment, the moment in which a man finds out, once and for all, who he is.
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Death (or its allusion) makes men precious and pathetic. They are moving because of their phantom condition; every act they execute may be their last; there is not a face that is not on the verge of dissolving like a face in a dream.
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Democracy is an abuse of statistics.
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Every writer ''creates'' his own precursors. His work modifies our conception of the past, as it will modify the future.
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Everything Is Illuminated
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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 some other manner after my physical death.... Or, as Hamlet wonders, what dreams will come when we leave this body?
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I cannot walk through the suburbs in the solitude of the night without thinking that the night pleases us because it suppresses idle details, just as our memory does.
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I foresee that man will resign himself each day to new abominations, and soon that only bandits and soldiers will be left.
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I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.
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I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.
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I have known uncertainty: a state unknown to the Greeks.
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In general, every country has the language it deserves.
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Life itself is a quotation.
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Like all those possessing a library, Aurelian was aware that he was guilty of not knowing his in its entirety.
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