Happy are the beloved and the lovers and those who can live without love.
JORGE LUIS BORGESI have sometimes suspected that the only thing that holds no mystery is happiness, because it is its own justification.
More Jorge Luis Borges Quotes
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Your unforgivable sins do not allow you to see my splendor.
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The flattery of posterity is not worth much more than contemporary flattery, which is worth nothing.
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I believe that in time we will have reached the point where we will deserve to be free of government.
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A man sets himself the task of portraying the world. Shortly before he dies he discovers that this patient labyrinth of lines is a drawing of his own face.
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Thus my life is a flight and I lose everything and everything belongs to oblivion, or to him.
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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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The task of art is to transform what is continuously happening to us, to transform all of these things into symbols, into music, into something which can last in man’s memory. That is our duty. If we don’t fulfill it, we feel unhappy.
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I foresee that man will resign himself each day to new abominations, and soon that only bandits and soldiers will be left.
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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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It also occurred to him that throughout history, humankind has told two stories: the story of a lost ship sailing the Mediterranean seas in quest of a beloved isle, and the story of a god who allows himself to be crucified on Golgotha.
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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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In my next life I will try to commit more errors.
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Time, which despoils castles, enriches verses.
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Doubt is one of the names of intelligence.
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In Spanish it is very difficult to make things flow, because words are over-long. But in English, you have light words.
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