Israelites, Christians and Muslims profess immortality, but the veneration they render this world proves they believe only in it, since they destine all other worlds, in infinite number, to be its reward or punishment.
JORGE LUIS BORGESHe thought that the rose was to be found in its own eternity and not in his words; and that we may mention or allude to a thing, but not express it.
More Jorge Luis Borges Quotes
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No one is a poet from eight to twelve and from two to six. Whoever is a poet is one always, and continually assaulted by poetry.
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I am almost sure to be blotted out by death, but sometimes I think it is not impossible that I may continue to live in some other manner after my physical death . Or, as Hamlet wonders, what dreams will come when we leave this body?
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It’s a shame that we have to choose between two such second-rate countries as the USSR and the USA.
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My books standing there on the shelf do not know that I have written them.
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He consorted with prostitutes and poets and with persons even worse.
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A writer needs loneliness, and he gets his share of it. He needs love, and he gets shared and also unshared love. He needs friendship. In fact, he needs the universe. To be a writer is, in a sense, to be a day-dreamer – to be living a kind of double life.
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If space is infinite, we may be at any point in space. If time is infinite, we may be at any point in time.
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In general, every country has the language it deserves.
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I am not sure that I exist, actually. I am all the writers that I have read, all the people that I have met, all the women that I have loved; all the cities I have visited.
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When I feel I’m going to write something, then I just am quiet and I try to listen. Then something comes through. And I do what I can in order not to tamper with it.
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While we are asleep in this world, we are awake in another one.
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We have stopped believing in progress. What progress that is !
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When you come right down to it, opinions are the most superficial things about anyone.
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Reality is partial to symmetry and slight anachronisms
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Many of the characters are fools and they’re always playing tricks on me and treating me badly.
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