The sea is an idiom I cannot decipher.
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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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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Your unforgivable sins do not allow you to see my splendor.
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A system is nothing more than the subordination of all aspects of the universe to any one of such aspects.
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I am not sure of anything, I know nothing. Can you imagine that I don’t even know the date of my own death?
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Reality is partial to symmetry and slight anachronisms
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One concept corrupts and confuses the others. I am not speaking of the Evil whose limited sphere is ethics; I am speaking of the infinite.
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Personally, I am a hedonistic reader; I have never read a book merely because it was ancient. I read books for the aesthetic emotions they offer me, and I ignore the commentaries and criticism.
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From my weakness, I drew strength that never left me.
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When I write, I do it urged by an intimate necessity. I don’t have in mind an exclusive public, or a public of multitudes, I don’t think in either thing. I think about expressing what I want to say. I try to do it in the simplest way possible.
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There is no point in being overwhelmed by the appalling total of human sufferring; such a total does not exist. Neither poverty nor pain is accumulable.
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It means much to have loved, to have been happy, to have laid my hand on the living Garden, even for a day.
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Each thing implies the universe.
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A writer – and, I believe, generally all persons – must think that whatever happens to him or her is a resource.
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The mind was dreaming. The world was its dream.
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There is nothing in the world that is not mysterious, but the mystery is more evident in certain things than in others: in the sea, in the eyes of the elders, in the color yellow, and in music.
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