You may win your heart’s desire, but in the end you’re cheated of it by death.
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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Let others pride themselves about how many pages they have written; I’d rather boast about the ones I’ve read.
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Loneliness does not worry me; life is difficult enough, putting up with yourself and with your own habits.
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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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In my next life I will try to commit more errors.
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Beyond my anxiety, beyond this writing, the universe waits, inexhaustible, inviting.
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Truth never penetrates an unwilling mind.
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All that happens to us, including our humiliations, our misfortunes, our embarrassments, all is given to us as raw material, as clay, so that we may shape our art.
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Poets, like the blind, can see in the dark.
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You have wakened not out of sleep, but into a prior dream, and that dream lies within another, and so on, to infinity, which is the number of grains of sand. The path that you are to take is endless, and you will die before you have truly awakened.
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My undertaking is not difficult, essentially. I should only have to be immortal to carry it out.
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To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.
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Israelites, Christians and Muslims profess immortality, but the veneration they render this world proves they believe only in it, since they destine all other worlds, in infinite number, to be its reward or punishment.
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The things that are said in literature are always the same. What is important is the way they are said.
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It means much to have loved, to have been happy, to have laid my hand on the living Garden, even for a day.
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The flattery of posterity is not worth much more than contemporary flattery, which is worth nothing.
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