A writer needs loneliness, and he gets his share of it. He needs love, and he gets shared and also unshared love. He needs friendship. In fact, he needs the universe. To be a writer is, in a sense, to be a day-dreamer – to be living a kind of double life.
JORGE LUIS BORGESI walk slowly, like one who comes from so far away he doesn’t expect to arrive.
More Jorge Luis Borges Quotes
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I am not sure of anything, I know nothing. Can you imagine that I don’t even know the date of my own death?
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We accept reality so readily – perhaps because we sense that nothing is real.
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The tango is a direct expression of something that poets have often tried to state in words: the belief that a fight may be a celebration.
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Everything touches everything.
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Democracy is an abuse of statistics.
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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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Poets, like the blind, can see in the dark.
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I think most people are more important than their opinions.
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Nothing is built on stone; all is built on sand, but we must build as if the sand were stone.
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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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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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The word happiness exists in every language; it is plausible the thing itself exists.
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Life itself is a quotation.
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I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.
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Only in the present do things happen.
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