Only in the present do things happen.
JORGE LUIS BORGESI had always thought of Paradise / In form and image as a library.
More Jorge Luis Borges Quotes
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Blindness has not been for me a total misfortune; it should not be seen in a pathetic way. It should be seen as a way of life: one of the styles of living.
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The heresies we should fear are those which can be confused with orthodoxy.
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I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.
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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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The truth is that we live out our lives putting off all that can be put off; perhaps we all know deep down that we are immortal and that sooner or later all men will do and know all things.
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Art is endless like a river flowing, passing, yet remaining.
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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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The visible universe was an illusion or, more precisely, a sophism. Mirrors and fatherhood are abominable because they multiply it and extend it.
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A book is not an isolated being: it is a relationship, an axis of innumerable relationships
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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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There is no point in being overwhelmed by the appalling total of human sufferring; such a total does not exist. Neither poverty nor pain is accumulable.
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In my next life I will try to commit more errors.
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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 mightiest love was granted him Love that does not expect to be loved.
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Each thing implies the universe.
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One concept corrupts and confuses the others. I am not speaking of the Evil whose limited sphere is ethics; I am speaking of the infinite.
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No one is a poet from eight to twelve and from two to six. Whoever is a poet is one always, and continually assaulted by poetry.
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There is an hour of the afternoon when the plain is on the verge of saying something. It never says, or perhaps it says it infinitely, or perhaps we do not understand it, or we understand it and it is untranslatable as music.
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We accept reality so readily – perhaps because we sense that nothing is real.
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Another school declares that all time has already transpired and that our life is only the crepuscular and no doubt falsified and mutilated memory or reflection of an irrecoverable process.
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In general, every country has the language it deserves.
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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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When I wake up, I wake to something worse. It’s the astonishment of being myself.
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Perhaps the apparent favor of the universe is no more than the crocodile grin of a Doberman breathing hard and about to be hungry?
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I thought that a man can be an enemy of other men, of the moments of other men, but not of a country: not of fireflies, words, gardens, streams of water, sunsets.
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A writer’s work is the product of laziness.
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