You may win your heart’s desire, but in the end you’re cheated of it by death.
JORGE LUIS BORGESReality favors symmetry.
More Jorge Luis Borges Quotes
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We accept reality so readily – perhaps because we sense that nothing is real.
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Being an agnostic means all things are possible, even God, even the Holy Trinity. This world is so strange that anything may happen, or may not happen. Being an agnostic makes me live in a larger, a more fantastic kind of world, almost uncanny. It makes me more tolerant.
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So plant your own gardens and decorate your own soul, instead of waiting for someone to bring you flowers.
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Your unforgivable sins do not allow you to see my splendor.
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I am almost sure to be blotted out by death, but sometimes I think it is not impossible that I may continue to live in some other manner after my physical death . Or, as Hamlet wonders, what dreams will come when we leave this body?
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Don’t talk unless you can improve the silence.
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For me, beauty is a physical sensation, something we feel with our whole body. It is not the result of judgement. We do not arrive at it by way of rules. We either feel beauty or we don’t.
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Only in the present do things happen.
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Poets, like the blind, can see in the dark.
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Time forks perpetually toward innumerable futures.
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Any life, however long and complicated it may be, actually consists of a single moment — the moment when a man knows forever more who he is.
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The sea is an idiom I cannot decipher.
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The earth we inhabit is an error, an incompetent parody. Mirrors and paternity are abominable because they multiply and affirm it.
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The possibilities of the art of combination are not infinite, but they tend to be frightful.
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I do not write for a select minority, which means nothing to me, nor for that adulated platonic entity known as ‘The Masses’. Both abstractions, so dear to the demagogue, I disbelieve in. I write for myself and for my friends, and I write to ease the passing of time.
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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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When I write, I do it urged by an intimate necessity. I don’t have in mind an exclusive public, or a public of multitudes, I don’t think in either thing. I think about expressing what I want to say. I try to do it in the simplest way possible.
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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 future is as irrevocable as an inflexible yesterday.
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My books standing there on the shelf do not know that I have written them.
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I saw all the mirrors on earth and none of them reflected me.
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What will die with me when I die, what pathetic or fragile form will the world lose?
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In our dreams (writes Coleridge) images represent the sensations we think they cause; we do not feel horror because we are threatened by a sphinx; we dream of a sphinx in order to explain the horror we feel.
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Time is the tiger that devours me, but I am that tiger.
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The original is unfaithful to the translation.
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Poetry remembers that it was an oral art before it was a written art.
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