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Jorge Luis Borges Quotes

Jorge Luis Borges quotes about ignorance

Argentinian Poet, Writer August 24, 1899 – June 14, 1986

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Jorge Luis Borges quote: "His life, measured in space and time, will take up a mere few..."
His life, measured in space and time, will take up a mere few lines, which my ignorance will abbreviate further. Jorge Luis Borges
Personally, I am a hedonistic reader; I have never read a book merely because it was ancient. I read books for the aesthetic emotions they offer me, and I ignore the commentaries and criticism. Jorge Luis Borges
The web of time - the strands of which approach one another, bifurcate, intersect, or ignore each other through the centuries - embraces "every" possibility. We do not exist in most of them. In some you exist and not I, while in others I do, and you do not, and in yet others both of us exist. Jorge Luis Borges
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 Luis Borges
Jorge Luis Borges quote: "We are as ignorant of the meaning of the dragon as we are of..."
We are as ignorant of the meaning of the dragon as we are of the meaning of the universe. Jorge Luis Borges

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