We accept reality so readily – perhaps because we sense that nothing is real.
JORGE LUIS BORGESPoetry remembers that it was an oral art before it was a written art.
More Jorge Luis Borges Quotes
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We have a very precise image – an image at times shameless – of what we have lost, but we are ignorant of what may follow or replace it.
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Time is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire.
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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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Happy are the beloved and the lovers and those who can live without love.
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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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No one is anyone, one single immortal man is all men. Like Cornelius Agrippa, I am god, I am hero, I am philosopher, I am demon and I am world, which is a tedious way of saying that I do not exist.
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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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Censorship is the mother of metaphor.
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I cannot sleep unless I am surrounded by books.
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Time can’t be measured in days the way money is measured in pesos and centavos, because all pesos are equal, while every day, perhaps every hour, is different.
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I walk slowly, like one who comes from so far away he doesn’t expect to arrive.
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We have stopped believing in progress. What progress that is !
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There’s no need to build a labyrinth when the entire universe is one.
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When you reach my age, you realize you couldn’t have done things very much better or much worse than you did them in the first place.
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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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