A book is not an isolated being: it is a relationship, an axis of innumerable relationships
JORGE LUIS BORGESTime can’t be measured in days the way money is measured in pesos and centavos, because all pesos are equal, while every day, perhaps every hour, is different.
More Jorge Luis Borges Quotes
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I walk slowly, like one who comes from so far away he doesn’t expect to arrive.
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While we are asleep in this world, we are awake in another one.
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He was very religious; he believed that he had a secret pact with God which exempted him from doing good in exchange for prayers and piety.
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Life itself is a quotation.
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Loneliness does not worry me; life is difficult enough, putting up with yourself and with your own habits.
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I saw a sunset in Queretaro that seemed to reflect the color of a rose in Bengal.
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Chang Tzu tells us of a persevering man who after three laborious years mastered the art of dragon-slaying. For the rest of his days, he had not a single opportunity to test his skills.
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In general, every country has the language it deserves.
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The man who acquires an encyclopedia does not thereby acquire every line, every paragraph, every page, and every illustration; he acquires the possibility of becoming familiar with one and another of those things.
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Time is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire.
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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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I suppose identity depends on memory. And if my memory is blotted out, then I wonder if I exist – I mean, if I am the same person. Of course, I don’t have to solve that problem. It’s up to God, if any.
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What a writer wants to do is not what he does.
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I had always thought of Paradise / In form and image as a library.
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Being an agnostic means all things are possible, even God, even the Holy Trinity. This world is so strange that anything may happen, or may not happen. Being an agnostic makes me live in a larger, a more fantastic kind of world, almost uncanny. It makes me more tolerant.
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