I have committed the worst of sins one can commit. I have not been happy.
JORGE LUIS BORGESTo say good-bye is to deny separation; it is to say Today we play at going our own ways, but we’ll see each other tomorrow. Men invented farewells because they somehow knew themselves to be immortal, even while seeing themselves as contingent and ephemeral.
More Jorge Luis Borges Quotes
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Time is the substance from which I am made. Time is a river which carries me along, but I am the river; it is a tiger that devours me, but I am the tiger; it is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire.
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I am not sure of anything, I know nothing. Can you imagine that I don’t even know the date of my own death?
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It means much to have loved, to have been happy, to have laid my hand on the living Garden, even for a day.
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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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Being with you and not being with you is the only way I have to measure time.
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I never reread what I’ve written. I’m far too afraid to feel ashamed of what I’ve done.
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When you come right down to it, opinions are the most superficial things about anyone.
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Beyond my anxiety, beyond this writing, the universe waits, inexhaustible, inviting.
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Then I reflect that all things happen, happen to one, precisely now. Century follows century, and things happen only in the present. There are countless men in the air, on land and at sea, and all that really happens happens to me.
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From my weakness, I drew strength that never left me.
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All that happens to us, including our humiliations, our misfortunes, our embarrassments, all is given to us as raw material, as clay, so that we may shape our art.
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The future is inevitable and precise, but it may not occur. God lurks in the gaps.
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I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.
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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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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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