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“Literature is not exhaustible, for the sufficient and simple reason that a single book is not. A book is not an isolated entity: it is a narration, an axis of innumerable narrations. One literature differs from another, either before or after it, not so much because of the text as for the manner in which it is read.”

Jorge Luis Borges
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Literature
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“In the course of a life devoted less to living than to reading, I have verified many times that literary intentions and theories are nothing more than stimuli and that the final work usually ignores or even contradicts them.”

Jorge Luis Borges
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Literature
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“A book is not an autonomous entity: it is a relation, an axis of innumerable relations. One literature differs from another, be it earlier or later, not because of the texts but because of the way they are read: if I could read any page from the present time–this one, for instance–as it will be read in the year 2000, I would know what the literature of the year 2000 would be like.”

Jorge Luis Borges
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Literature
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“In the order of literature, as in others, there is no act that is not the coronation of an infinite series of causes and the source of an infinite series of effects.”

Jorge Luis Borges
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Literature
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“Imprecision is tolerable and verisimilar in literature, because we always tend towards it in life.”

Jorge Luis Borges
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Literature
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“Universal history is the history of a few metaphors.”

Jorge Luis Borges
Submitted by Quonation |Category: History
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“Perhaps universal history is the history of the diverse intonation of some metaphors.”

Jorge Luis Borges
Submitted by Quonation |Category: History
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“I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.”

Jorge Luis Borges
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Imagination
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“Life and death have been lacking in my life.”

Jorge Luis Borges
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Death
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“Art always opts for the individual, the concrete; art is not Platonic.”

Jorge Luis Borges
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Art
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“Music, feelings of happiness, mythology, faces worn by time, certain twilights and certain places, want to tell us something, or they told us something that we should not have missed, or they are about to tell us something; this imminence of a revelation that is not produced is, perhaps, the esthetic event.”

Jorge Luis Borges
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Beauty
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“Life itself is a quotation.”

Jorge Luis Borges
Submitted by Quonation |Category: General
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“The flattery of posterity is not worth much more than contemporary flattery, which is worth nothing.”

Jorge Luis Borges
Submitted by Quonation |Category: General
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“The original is unfaithful to the translation.”

Jorge Luis Borges
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Originality
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“To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.”

Jorge Luis Borges
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Love

“He had decided to live for ever or die in the attempt.”

Joseph Heller
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Immortality
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“Frankly, I’d like to see the government get out of war altogether and leave the whole field to private industry.”

Joseph Heller
Submitted by Quonation |Category: War
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“He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt.”

Joseph Heller
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Immortality
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“He was a self-made man who owed his lack of success to nobody.”

Joseph Heller
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Failure
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“I want to keep my dreams, even bad ones, because without them, I might have nothing all night long.”

Joseph Heller
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Dream
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“Everything worth dying for is certainly worth living for.”

Joseph Heller
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Life

“He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet.”

Joseph Joubert
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Imagination
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“Who ever has no fixed opinions has no constant feelings.”

Joseph Joubert
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Consistency
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“Children need models rather than critics.”

Joseph Joubert
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Children
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“The passions of the young are vices in the old.”

Joseph Joubert
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Youth
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“Ask the young. They know everything.”

Joseph Joubert
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Youth
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“Words are like eyeglasses they blur everything that they do not make clear.”

Joseph Joubert
Submitted by Quonation |Category: General
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“What is true by lamplight is not always true by sunlight.”

Joseph Joubert
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Truth
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“Tenderness is the rest of passion.”

Joseph Joubert
Submitted by Quonation |Category: General
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“To teach is to learn twice.”

Joseph Joubert
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Teacher
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“Superstition is the only religion of which base souls are capable of.”

Joseph Joubert
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Superstition
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“Be charitable and indulge to everyone, but thyself.”

Joseph Joubert
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Charity
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“There was a time when the world acted on books; now books act on the world.”

Joseph Joubert
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Reading
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“The worst thing about new books is that they keep us from reading the old ones.”

Joseph Joubert
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Reading
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“Without the spiritual world the material world is a disheartening enigma.”

Joseph Joubert
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Spirituality
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“Space is the stature of God.”

Joseph Joubert
Submitted by Quonation |Category: General
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“They are like the clue in the labyrinth, or the compass in the night.”

Joseph Joubert
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Religion
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“You will not find poetry anywhere unless you bring some of it with you.”

Joseph Joubert
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Poetry
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“Drawing is speaking to the eye; talking is painting to the ear.”

Joseph Joubert
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Painting
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“Monuments are the grappling-irons that bind one generation to another.”

Joseph Joubert
Submitted by Quonation |Category: General
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“Ornaments were invented by modesty.”

Joseph Joubert
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Modesty

“Science is for those who learn, poetry is for those who know.”

Joseph Roux
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Science
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“A fine quotation is a diamond in the hand of a man of wit and a pebble in the hand of a fool.”

Joseph Roux
Submitted by Quonation |Category: General
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“Poetry is the exquisite expression of exquisite expressions.”

Joseph Roux
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Poetry
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“Philosophers call God the great unknown The great misknown is more like it!”

Joseph Roux
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Philosophy
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“There is a slowness in affairs which ripens them, and a slowness which rots them.”

Joseph Roux
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Patience
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“Experience comprises illusions lost, rather than wisdom gained.”

Joseph Roux
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Experience
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“Nothing vivifies, and nothing kills, like the emotions.”

Joseph Roux
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Emotion

“For days after death hair and fingernails continue to grow, but phone calls taper off.”

Johnny Carson
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Death
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“New York is an exciting town where something is happening all the time, most unsolved.”

Johnny Carson
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Life
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“My success just evolved from working hard at the business at hand each day.”

Johnny Carson
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Success
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“The only thing money gives you is the freedom of not worrying about money.”

Johnny Carson
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Money
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“If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam.”

Johnny Carson
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Marriage
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“If life was fair, Elvis would be alive and all the impersonators would be dead.”

Johnny Carson
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Life

“The people who turn out best are those people who make the best out of the way things turn out.”

John Wooden
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Life
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“There are many things that are essential to arriving at true peace of mind, and one of the most important is faith, which cannot be acquired without prayer.”

John Wooden
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Faith
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“Success is peace of mind, which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you made the effort to become the best of which you are capable.”

John Wooden
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Success
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“Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best to become the best you are capable of becoming.”

John Wooden
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Success
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“Success comes from knowing that you did your best to become the best that you are capable of becoming.”

John Wooden
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Success
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“Be true to yourself, help others, make each day your masterpiece, make friendship a fine art, drink deeply from good books – especially the Bible, build a shelter against a rainy day, give thanks for your blessings and pray for guidance every day.”

John Wooden
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Art
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“Young people need models, not critics…”

John Wooden
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Youth
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“Ability may get you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there.”

John Wooden
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Inspirational
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“It’s the little details that are vital. Little things make big things happen.”

John Wooden
Submitted by Quonation |Category: General
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“Sports do not build character. They reveal it.”

John Wooden
Submitted by Quonation |Category: General
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“Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out.”

John Wooden
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Attitude
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“Nothing will work unless you do.”

John Wooden
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Attitude
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“Failure to prepare is preparing to fail.”

John Wooden
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Planning
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“It’s not so important who starts the game but who finishes it.”

John Wooden
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Perseverance
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“Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.”

John Wooden
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Performance
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“Don’t mistake activity for achievement.”

John Wooden
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Achievement
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“Never mistake activity for achievement.”

John Wooden
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Achievement
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“It’s what you learn after you know it all that counts.”

John Wooden
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Learning
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“Be prepared and be honest.”

John Wooden
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Honesty
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“Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be.”

John Wooden
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Failure

“My ground is the Bible. Yea, I am a Bible-bigot. I follow it in all things, both great and small.”

John Wesley
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Religion
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“The Bible knows nothing of solitary religion.”

John Wesley
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Religion
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“Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.”

John Wesley
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Reading
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“Passion and prejudice govern the world; only under the name of reason.”

John Wesley
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Reason
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“I set myself on fire and people come to watch me burn.”

John Wesley
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Motivational
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“Make all you can, save all you can, give all you can.”

John Wesley
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Money
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“Cleanliness is indeed next to godliness.”

John Wesley
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Appearance
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“Though I am always in haste, I am never in a hurry.”

John Wesley
Submitted by Quonation |Category: General
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“The best of it is, God is with us.”

John Wesley
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Famous Last Words
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“Catch on fire with enthusiasm and people will come for miles to watch you burn.”

John Wesley
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Enthusiasm

“Education is a weapon whose effects depend on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed.”

Joseph Stalin
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Education
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“When we hang the capitalists they will sell us the rope we use.”

Joseph Stalin
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Socialism
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“Print is the sharpest and the strongest weapon of our party.”

Joseph Stalin
Submitted by Quonation |Category: General
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“A single death is a tragedy. A million deaths is a statistic.”

Joseph Stalin
Submitted by Quonation |Category: General
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“The Pope? How many divisions has he got?”

Joseph Stalin
Submitted by Quonation |Category: General
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“History shows that there are no invincible armies.”

Joseph Stalin
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Military
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“Gratitude is a sickness suffered by dogs.”

Joseph Stalin
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Gratitude
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“Education is a weapon, whose effect depends on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed.”

Joseph Stalin
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Education