I have known uncertainty: a state unknown to the Greeks.

quote by Jorge Luis Borges
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Sort library is to act as a silent mode of art criticism.

classic quote by Jorge Luis Borges
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To die for a religion is easier than to live it absolutely.

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I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.

classic quote by Jorge Luis Borges (1960)
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To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.

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

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Poetry remembers that it was an oral art before it was a written art.

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

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Mirrors and paternity are abominable because they multiply and affirm it.

Jorge Luis Borges in Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius (1941)
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All theories are legitimate, no matter. What matters is what you do with them.

classic quote by Jorge Luis Borges
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