Heaven and hell seem out of proportion to me: the actions of men do not deserve so much.
JORGE LUIS BORGESThe word happiness exists in every language; it is plausible the thing itself exists.
More Jorge Luis Borges Quotes
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I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.
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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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Blindness has not been for me a total misfortune; it should not be seen in a pathetic way. It should be seen as a way of life: one of the styles of living.
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No one is a poet from eight to twelve and from two to six. Whoever is a poet is one always, and continually assaulted by poetry.
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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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To say good-bye is to deny separation; it is to say Today we play at going our own ways, but we’ll see each other tomorrow. Men invented farewells because they somehow knew themselves to be immortal, even while seeing themselves as contingent and ephemeral.
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He consorted with prostitutes and poets and with persons even worse.
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I have always come to life after coming to books.
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The minotaur more than justifies the existence of the labyrinth.
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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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Everything touches everything.
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Writing is nothing more than a guided dream.
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A book is not an isolated being: it is a relationship, an axis of innumerable relationships
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I had always thought of Paradise / In form and image as a library.
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Only in the present do things happen.
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