Life itself is a quotation.
JORGE LUIS BORGESArt is endless like a river flowing, passing, yet remaining.
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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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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Censorship is the mother of metaphor.
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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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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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I cannot walk through the suburbs in the solitude of the night without thinking that the night pleases us because it suppresses idle details, just as our memory does.
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I think that the reader should enrich what he is reading. He should misunderstand the text; he should change it into something else.
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Don’t talk unless you can improve the silence.
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I ask of any God, of any gods, that if they give immortality, I hope to be granted oblivion also.
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In Spanish it is very difficult to make things flow, because words are over-long. But in English, you have light words.
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He thought that the rose was to be found in its own eternity and not in his words; and that we may mention or allude to a thing, but not express it.
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When I wake up, I wake to something worse. It’s the astonishment of being myself.
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Truth never penetrates an unwilling mind.
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If I were asked to name the chief event in my life, I should say my father’s library.
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I gazed at every mirror on the planet, not one gave back my reflection.
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