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Nothing Is Built On Stone; All Is Built On Sand, But We Must Build As If The Sand Were Stone.
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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, 1972
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We never know whether we are victors or whether we are defeated.
-- Jorge Luis Borges, "Borges On Writing", 1974...
The infinite is a concept which corrupts and upsets all others.
-- Jorge Luis Borges - Essay: "The Avatars of the Tortoise...
I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library. -- Jorge Luis Borge
Any life, no matter how long and complex it may be, is made up of a single moment- the moment in which a man finds out, once and for all, who he is.
-- Jorge Luis Borge...
What you really value is what you miss, not what you have. Jorge Luis Borge
Many of the characters are fools and they are always playing tricks on me and treating me badly.
-- Jorge Luis Borges, from "Writers on Writing" by Jon Winoku...
Quote #200 "In a riddle whose answer is chess, what is the only prohibited word?
I thought a moment and replied, "The word chess". -- -- Jorge Luis Borge...
Where were you when the ship hit the sand?
What would happen if you built a communist government in the middle of the Sahara desert?
For a time very little would happen, but at the end of say three years, there would be an acute shortage of sand....