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"The condition you're in at this moment is the product of your previous thoughts, to change your condition, change your thoughts."
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"Smile creates love and peace, love and peace create smile."

"When mind is so easy, body becomes so tranquil and so fearless."

"A full mind is unlucky if a good idea comes to enter inside, an empty mind is unlucky if a bad idea comes to enter inside!"

"Anything that ends is a dream. This whole universe is a dream."

"A wise quote can only change a wise man! Therefore, wise sayings are for the wise men, not for the fools! The sunflowers turn their face toward the Sun, the fools, toward the darkness!"

"There is a big difference between a tree and a wood! There is a big difference between a thinking society and an unthinking society!"

"Simple things have greater power than the complicated things!"

"The goodness you do might fail; but keep doing it, because the real failure is never doing goodness!"
Explore more quotes by Jorge Luis Borges

"I cannot combine some charactersdhcmrlchtdjwhich the divine Library has not foreseen and which in one of its secret tongues do not contain a terrible meaning. No one can articulate a syllable which is not filled with tenderness and fear, which is not, in one of these languages, the powerful name of a god. To speak is to fall into tautology."

"We have a very precise image - an image at times shameless - of what we have lost, but we are ignorant of what may follow or replace it."

"He was very religious he believed that he had a secret pact with God which exempted him from doing good in exchange for prayers and piety."

"A circle drawn on a blackboard, a right triangle, a rhombus--all these are forms we can fully intuit; Ireneo could do the same with the stormy mane of a young colt, a small herd of cattle on a mountainside, a flickering fire and its uncountable ashes, and the many faces of a dead man at a wake. I have no idea how many stars he saw in the sky."

"I believe that in time we will have reached the point where we will deserve to be free of government."

"And so, as I sleep, some dream beguiles me, and suddenly I know I dream.Then I think: this is a dream, a pure diversion of my will; now that I have unlimited power, I am going to create a tiger.Oh incompetence! Never do my dreams engender the wild beast I longed for.The tiger indeed appears, but stuffed or flimsy, or with impure variations of shape, or of an implausible size, or all too fleeting, or with a touch of the dog or bird."

"If we think of the novel and the epic...The difference lies in the fact that the important thing about the epic is a hero--a man who is a pattern for all men. While, as Mencken pointed out, the essence of most novels lies in the breaking down of a man, in the degeneration of character."
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