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"To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god." — Jorge Borges
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Love    Quote of the Day    Sad Break Up Love    Sad Love   

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"To be immortal is commonplace; except for man, all creatures are immortal, for they are ignorant of death; what is divine, terrible, incomprehensible, is to know that one is immortal." — Jorge Borges
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Death   

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"In general, every country has the language it deserves." — Jorge Borges
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Country   

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"Like all writers, he measured the achievements of others by what they had accomplished, asking of them that they measure him by what he envisaged or planned." — Jorge Borges
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Writers And Writing   

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"Nothing is built on stone; all is built on sand, but we must build as if the sand were stone" — Jorge Borges
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"The flattery of posterity is not worth much more than contemporary flattery, which is worth nothing." — Jorge Borges
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"Poetry remembers that it was an oral art before it was a written art." — Jorge Borges
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"Democracy is an abuse of statistics." — Jorge Borges
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"Reality is not always probable, or likely." — Jorge Borges
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Reality   

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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." — Jorge Borges
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"Time is the substance from which I am made. Time is a river which carries me along, but I am the river; it is a tiger that devours me, but I am the tiger; it is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire." — Jorge Borges
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Time And Time Management   

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"I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library." — Jorge Borges
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Libraries   

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"The truth is that we live out our lives putting off all that can be put off; perhaps we all know deep down that we are immortal and that sooner or later all men will do and know all things." — Jorge Borges
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Procrastination    Truth   

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"The Falklands thing was a fight between two bald men over a comb." — Jorge Borges
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Men   

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"I have known uncertainty: a state unknown to the Greeks." — Jorge Borges
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Uncertainty   

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"To die for a religion is easier than to live it absolutely." — Jorge Borges
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Life    Religion   

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"Life itself is a quotation." — Jorge Borges
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Quotations   

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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." — Jorge Borges
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"One concept corrupts and confuses the others. I am not speaking of the Evil whose limited sphere is ethics; I am speaking of the infinite." — Jorge Borges
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"Writing is nothing more than a guided dream." — Jorge Borges
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"The original is unfaithful to the translation." — Jorge Borges
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