Do you want to see what human eyes have never seen? Look at the moon. Do you want to hear what ears have never heard? Listen to the bird’s cry. Do you want to touch what hands have never touched? Touch the earth. Verily I say that God is about to create the world.
JORGE LUIS BORGESYou 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.
More Jorge Luis Borges Quotes
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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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What will die with me when I die, what pathetic or fragile form will the world lose?
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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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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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I believe that in time we will have reached the point where we will deserve to be free of government.
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Soccer is popular because stupidity is popular.
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Reality is not always probable, or likely.
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Reality may avoid the obligation to be interesting, but hypotheses may not.
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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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I might accept immortality, if I had to do it. But I would prefer – if there is any afterlife – to know nothing whatever about Borges, about his experiences in this world.
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The tango is a direct expression of something that poets have often tried to state in words: the belief that a fight may be a celebration.
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When you reach my age, you realize you couldn’t have done things very much better or much worse than you did them in the first place.
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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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Truth never penetrates an unwilling mind.
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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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