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Famous Jorge Luis Borges Quotes
“Heaven and hell seem out of proportion to me: the actions of men do not deserve so much.”
“Translations are a partial and precious documentation of the changes the text suffers.”
“La duda es uno de los nombres de la inteligencia.”
“There is no intellectual exercise which is not ultimately useless.”
“Reality may avoid the obligation to be interesting, but ... hypotheses may not.”
“I gazed at every mirror on the planet, not one gave back my reflection.”
“For myth is at the beginning of literature, and also at its end.”
“My advanced age has taught me the resignation of being Borges.”
“The heresies we should fear are those which can be confused with orthodoxy.”
“When writers die they become books, which is, after all, not too bad an incarnation.”
“I saw all the mirrors on earth and none of them reflected me.”
“Beyond my anxiety, beyond this writing, the universe waits, inexhaustible, inviting.”
“I think of reading a book as no less an experience than travelling or falling in love.”
“If I were asked to name the chief event in my life, I should say my father's library.”
“I saw a sunset in Queretaro that seemed to reflect the color of a rose in Bengal.”
“Time is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire.”
“Your unforgivable sins do not allow you to see my splendor.”