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Jorge Luis Borges

"Nothing is built on stone; all is built on sand, but we must build as if the sand were stone."

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

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"Little did they suspect that the years would end by wearing away the disharmony.Little did they suspect that La Mancha and Montiel and the knight's frail figure would be, for the future, no less poetic than Sinbad's haunts or Ariosto's vast geographies.For myth is at the beginning of literature, and also at its end."

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"The Falklands thing was a fight between two bald men over a comb."

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"To die for a religion is easier than to live it absolutely."

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"Life itself is a quotation."

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"We are ignorant of the meaning of the dragon in the same way that we are ignorant of the meaning of the universe; but there is something in the dragon's image that fits man's imagination, and this accounts for the dragon's appearance in different places and periods."

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Jorge Luis Borges
"He [Omar Khayyam] is an atheist, but knows how to interpret in orthodox style the most difficult passages of the Koran; for every educated man is a theologian and faith is not a requisite."

Philosophy

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"It seemed incredible that this day, a day without warnings or omens, might be that of my implacable death."

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"Reading is an activity subsequent to writing: more resigned, more civil, more intellectual."

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"So witless did these ideas strike me as being, so sweeping and pompous the way they were expressed, that I associated them immediately with literature."

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