Life itself is a quotation.
JORGE LUIS BORGESFor 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.
More Jorge Luis Borges Quotes
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Being with you and not being with you is the only way I have to measure time.
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I saw all the mirrors on earth and none of them reflected me.
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I believe books will never disappear. It is impossible for it to happen. Of all man’s diverse tools, undoubtedly the most astounding are his books… If books were to disappear, history would disappear. So would man.
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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.
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The future is inevitable and precise, but it may not occur. God lurks in the gaps.
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Death is just infinity closing in.
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A system is nothing more than the subordination of all aspects of the universe to any one of such aspects.
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The central fact of my life has been the existence of words and the possibility of weaving those words into poetry.
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Doubt is one of the names of intelligence.
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A writer should have another lifetime to see if he’s appreciated.
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Heaven and hell seem out of proportion to me: the actions of men do not deserve so much.
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I had always thought of Paradise / In form and image as a library.
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When one confesses to an act, one ceases to be an actor in it and becomes its witness, becomes a man that observes and narrates it and no longer the man that performed it.
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Everything touches everything.
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I suppose identity depends on memory. And if my memory is blotted out, then I wonder if I exist – I mean, if I am the same person. Of course, I don’t have to solve that problem. It’s up to God, if any.
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