We are our memory, we are that chimerical museum of shifting shapes, that pile of broken mirrors.
JORGE LUIS BORGESThere 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.
More Jorge Luis Borges Quotes
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We have stopped believing in progress. What progress that is !
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He consorted with prostitutes and poets and with persons even worse.
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A book is not an isolated being: it is a relationship, an axis of innumerable relationships
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Don’t talk unless you can improve the silence.
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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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Reality is partial to symmetry and slight anachronisms
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What a writer wants to do is not what he does.
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We forget that we are all dead men conversing with dead men.
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When I feel I’m going to write something, then I just am quiet and I try to listen. Then something comes through. And I do what I can in order not to tamper with it.
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The man who acquires an encyclopedia does not thereby acquire every line, every paragraph, every page, and every illustration; he acquires the possibility of becoming familiar with one and another of those things.
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The mightiest love was granted him Love that does not expect to be loved.
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In my next life I will try to commit more errors.
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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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I have always come to life after coming to books.
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Reality is not always probable, or likely.
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