Heaven and hell seem out of proportion to me: the actions of men do not deserve so much.
JORGE LUIS BORGESI 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.
More Jorge Luis Borges Quotes
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The sea is an idiom I cannot decipher.
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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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There’s no need to build a labyrinth when the entire universe is one.
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So plant your own gardens and decorate your own soul, instead of waiting for someone to bring you flowers.
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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 mind was dreaming. The world was its dream.
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He was very religious; he believed that he had a secret pact with God which exempted him from doing good in exchange for prayers and piety.
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The task of art is to transform what is continuously happening to us, to transform all of these things into symbols, into music, into something which can last in man’s memory. That is our duty. If we don’t fulfill it, we feel unhappy.
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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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Truth never penetrates an unwilling mind.
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In all fiction, when a man is faced with alternatives he chooses one at the expense of others.
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A writer’s work is the product of laziness.
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The mightiest love was granted him Love that does not expect to be loved.
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I have always come to life after coming to books.
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Man’s memory shapes Its own Eden within.
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