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Quotes by Jorge Luis Borges

I am looking for the face I had before the world was made.

Jorge Luis Borges (1899 - 1986)
 
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Time is the substance from which I am made. Time is a river which carries me along, but I am the river; it is a tiger that devours me, but I am the tiger; it is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire.

Jorge Luis Borges (1899 - 1986)
Source: Unknown
Contributed by: James Moog. More quotes added by James from all sources
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Santa Claus has the right idea. Visit people once a year.

Jorge Luis Borges (1899 - 1986)
Source: Mark and Barbara Hall Collection.
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To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.

Jorge Luis Borges (1899 - 1986)
 
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The infinite is a concept which corrupts and upsets all others.

Jorge Luis Borges (1899 - 1986)
Source: Essay: "The Avatars of the Tortoise"
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Nothing is built on stone; all is built on sand, but we must build as if the sand were stone.

Jorge Luis Borges (1899 - 1986)
 
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