For 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.
JORGE LUIS BORGESThe worst labyrinth is not that intricate form that can entrap us forever, but a single and precise straight line.
More Jorge Luis Borges Quotes
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From my weakness, I drew strength that never left me.
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Every novel is an ideal plane inserted into the realm of reality.
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My undertaking is not difficult, essentially. I should only have to be immortal to carry it out.
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I saw all the mirrors on earth and none of them reflected me.
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There is nothing in the world that is not mysterious, but the mystery is more evident in certain things than in others: in the sea, in the eyes of the elders, in the color yellow, and in music.
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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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You may win your heart’s desire, but in the end you’re cheated of it by death.
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I foresee that man will resign himself each day to new abominations, and soon that only bandits and soldiers will be left.
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The future is as irrevocable as an inflexible yesterday.
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When I write, I do it urged by an intimate necessity. I don’t have in mind an exclusive public, or a public of multitudes, I don’t think in either thing. I think about expressing what I want to say. I try to do it in the simplest way possible.
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Thus my life is a flight and I lose everything and everything belongs to oblivion, or to him.
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We have stopped believing in progress. What progress that is !
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I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.
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Only in the present do things happen.
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Reality may avoid the obligation to be interesting, but hypotheses may not.
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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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I believe that in time we will have reached the point where we will deserve to be free of government.
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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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The worst labyrinth is not that intricate form that can entrap us forever, but a single and precise straight line.
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I walk slowly, like one who comes from so far away he doesn’t expect to arrive.
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The mind was dreaming. The world was its dream.
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The mightiest love was granted him Love that does not expect to be loved.
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What you really value is what you miss, not what you have.
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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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Israelites, Christians and Muslims profess immortality, but the veneration they render this world proves they believe only in it, since they destine all other worlds, in infinite number, to be its reward or punishment.
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In general, every country has the language it deserves.
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