Heaven and hell seem out of proportion to me: the actions of men do not deserve so much.
JORGE LUIS BORGESThe future has no other reality than as present hope, and the past is no more than present memory.
More Jorge Luis Borges Quotes
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Poetry remembers that it was an oral art before it was a written art.
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When I wake up, I wake to something worse. It’s the astonishment of being myself.
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I have sometimes suspected that the only thing that holds no mystery is happiness, because it is its own justification.
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The minotaur more than justifies the existence of the labyrinth.
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I cannot walk through the suburbs in the solitude of the night without thinking that the night pleases us because it suppresses idle details, just as our memory does.
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I thought that a man can be an enemy of other men, of the moments of other men, but not of a country: not of fireflies, words, gardens, streams of water, sunsets.
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I think of reading a book as no less an experience than travelling or falling in love.
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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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Time, which despoils castles, enriches verses.
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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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How can we manage to illuminate the pathos of our lives?
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I ask of any God, of any gods, that if they give immortality, I hope to be granted oblivion also.
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I had always thought of Paradise / In form and image as a library.
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What a writer wants to do is not what he does.
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My books standing there on the shelf do not know that I have written them.
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