In Spanish it is very difficult to make things flow, because words are over-long. But in English, you have light words.
JORGE LUIS BORGESIn Spanish it is very difficult to make things flow, because words are over-long. But in English, you have light words.
More Jorge Luis Borges Quotes
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The future is inevitable and precise, but it may not occur. God lurks in the gaps.
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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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You may win your heart’s desire, but in the end you’re cheated of it by death.
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Films are even stranger, for what we are seeing are not disguised people but photographs of disguised people, and yet we believe them while the film is being shown.
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You can’t measure time by days, the way you measure money by dollars and cents, because dollars are all the same while every day is different and maybe every hour as well.
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When I feel I’m going to write something, then I just am quiet and I try to listen. Then something comes through. And I do what I can in order not to tamper with it.
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A poet is a discoverer rather than an inventor.
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Beyond my anxiety, beyond this writing, the universe waits, inexhaustible, inviting.
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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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The minotaur more than justifies the existence of the labyrinth.
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I have always come to life after coming to books.
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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 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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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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The heresies we should fear are those which can be confused with orthodoxy.
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