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.
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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Everything touches everything.
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Many of the characters are fools and they’re always playing tricks on me and treating me badly.
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No one is anyone, one single immortal man is all men. Like Cornelius Agrippa, I am god, I am hero, I am philosopher, I am demon and I am world, which is a tedious way of saying that I do not exist.
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The earth we inhabit is an error, an incompetent parody. Mirrors and paternity are abominable because they multiply and affirm it.
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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.
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I cannot sleep unless I am surrounded by books.
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The future is inevitable and precise, but it may not occur. God lurks in the gaps.
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The possibilities of the art of combination are not infinite, but they tend to be frightful.
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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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Man’s memory shapes Its own Eden within.
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Only in the present do things happen.
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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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A writer should have another lifetime to see if he’s appreciated.
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The flattery of posterity is not worth much more than contemporary flattery, which is worth nothing.
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A writer’s work is the product of laziness.
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