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Jorge Luis Borges Quotes

Jorge Luis Borges quotes

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

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Why do you seem so annoyed at what I'm saying?"Because we're too much like each other. I loathe your face, which is a caricature of mine, I loathe your voice, which is a mockery of mine, I loathe your pathetic syntax, which is my own. Jorge Luis Borges
Jorge Luis Borges quote: "All men who repeat a line from Shakespeare are William..."
All men who repeat a line from Shakespeare are William Shakespeare Jorge Luis Borges
Jorge Luis Borges quote: "Many of the characters are fools and they're always playing..."
Many of the characters are fools and they're always playing tricks on meand treating me badly. Jorge Luis Borges
Jorge Luis Borges quote: "All language is a set of symbols whose use among its speakers..."
All language is a set of symbols whose use among its speakers assumes a share past Jorge Luis Borges
But let no one imagine that we were mere ascetics. There is no more complex pleasure than thought, and it was to thought that we delivered ourselves over. Jorge Luis Borges
Jorge Luis Borges quote: "I foresee that man will resign himself each day to new..."
I foresee that man will resign himself each day to new abominations, and soon that only bandits and soldiers will be left. Jorge Luis Borges
Jorge Luis Borges quote: "Image is sorcery."
Image is sorcery. Jorge Luis Borges
Jorge Luis Borges quote: "I owe the discovery of Uqbar to the conjunction of a mirror..."
I owe the discovery of Uqbar to the conjunction of a mirror and an encyclopedia. Jorge Luis Borges
Jorge Luis Borges quote: "The universe (which others call the Library) is composed of an..."
The universe (which others call the Library) is composed of an indefinite, perhaps infinite number of hexagonal galleries. Jorge Luis Borges
Jorge Luis Borges quote: "In a riddle whose answer is chess, what is the only prohibited..."
In a riddle whose answer is chess, what is the only prohibited word? Jorge Luis Borges
Jorge Luis Borges quote: "Reality is partial to symmetry and slight anachronisms"
Reality is partial to symmetry and slight anachronisms Jorge Luis Borges
Jorge Luis Borges quote: "Reality is not always probable, or likely."
Reality is not always probable, or likely. Jorge Luis Borges
Jorge Luis Borges quote: "Like all those possessing a library, Aurelian was aware that..."
Like all those possessing a library, Aurelian was aware that he was guilty of not knowing his in its entirety. Jorge Luis Borges
What will my redeemer be like? I wonder. Will he be a bull or a man? Will he perhaps be a bull with the face of a man? Or will he be like me? Jorge Luis Borges
Jorge Luis Borges quote: "I have known uncertainty: a state unknown to the Greeks."
I have known uncertainty: a state unknown to the Greeks. Jorge Luis Borges

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