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Jorge Luis Borges Quotes

Biography: Jorge Luis Borges is known for his profound and imaginative contributi... more Biography: Jorge Luis Borges is known for his profound and imaginative contributions to literature, particularly in the genres of short stories, essays, and poetry. An Argentine writer, Borges explored themes of labyrinths, mirrors, and fictional worlds in works like "Ficciones" and "The Aleph". His literary style blends philosophy, mythology, and metaphysics, leaving a lasting impact on modern literature. less

"There is no need to build a labyrinth when the entire universe is one"

Tags: Philosophy, Perspective, Existentialism, Reality, Universe

"We accept reality so readily - perhaps because we sense that nothing is real"

Tags: Philosophy, Perception, Truth, Existence, Acceptance

"The original is unfaithful to the translation"

Tags: Language, Interpretation, Linguistics, Literary analysis, Translation

"Being with you and not being with you is the only way I have to measure time."

Tags: Love, Connection, Emotions, Time, Romance

"One is allowed to change the past, but only in the libraries."

Tags: Learning, Knowledge, Imagination, History, Memory

"Everything touches everything."

Tags: Unity, Interconnectedness, Interdependence, Oneness, Wholeness

"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."

Tags: Philosophy, Life, Self-discovery, Identity, Understanding

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

Tags: Philosophy, Knowledge, Existentialism, Uncertainty, Human experience

"Reality is not always probable or likely."

Tags: Philosophy, Perspective, Perception, Truth, Reality

"The flattery of posterity is not worth much more than contemporary flattery, which is worth nothing"

Tags: Perception, Time, Value, Criticism, Recognition

"Time is the substance I am made of Time is a river that sweeps 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"

Tags: Philosophy, Self-awareness, Identity, Introspection, Transformation

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

Tags: Love, Relationships, Passion, Humanity, Romance

"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"

Tags: Relationships, Self-discovery, Identity, Literature, Existence

"I cannot walk through the suburbs in the solitude of the night without thinking that the night pleases us because it suppresses idle details"

Tags: Reflection, Introspection, Peace, Solitude, Minimalism

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

Tags: Wisdom, Knowledge, Literature, Imagination, Reading