So plant your own gardens and decorate your own soul, instead of waiting for someone to bring you flowers.
JORGE LUIS BORGESI 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?
More Jorge Luis Borges Quotes
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I cannot sleep unless I am surrounded by books.
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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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In my next life I will try to commit more errors.
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What I’m really concerned about is reaching one person. And that person may be myself for all I know.
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Soccer is popular because stupidity is popular.
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The future is as irrevocable as an inflexible yesterday.
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I have always come to life after coming to books.
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The future is inevitable and precise, but it may not occur. God lurks in the gaps.
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Dictatorships foster oppression, dictatorships foster servitude, dictatorships foster cruelty; more abominable is the fact that they foster idiocy.
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Every novel is an ideal plane inserted into the realm of reality.
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The visible universe was an illusion or, more precisely, a sophism. Mirrors and fatherhood are abominable because they multiply it and extend it.
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When one confesses to an act, one ceases to be an actor in it and becomes its witness, becomes a man that observes and narrates it and no longer the man that performed it.
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Time is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire.
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When I wake up, I wake to something worse. It’s the astonishment of being myself.
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What you really value is what you miss, not what you have.
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