Only in the present do things happen.
JORGE LUIS BORGESThe fact is that poetry is not the books in the library. Poetry is the encounter of the reader with the book, the discovery of the book.
More Jorge Luis Borges Quotes
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Heaven and hell seem out of proportion to me: the actions of men do not deserve so much.
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It’s a shame that we have to choose between two such second-rate countries as the USSR and the USA.
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I do not write for a select minority, which means nothing to me, nor for that adulated platonic entity known as ‘The Masses’. Both abstractions, so dear to the demagogue, I disbelieve in. I write for myself and for my friends, and I write to ease the passing of time.
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Time, which despoils castles, enriches verses.
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I have sometimes suspected that the only thing that holds no mystery is happiness, because it is its own justification.
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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 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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A system is nothing more than the subordination of all aspects of the universe to any one of such aspects.
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The sea is an idiom I cannot decipher.
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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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Man’s memory shapes Its own Eden within.
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Reality is not always probable, or likely.
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The possibilities of the art of combination are not infinite, but they tend to be frightful.
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Reality favors symmetry.
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Chang Tzu tells us of a persevering man who after three laborious years mastered the art of dragon-slaying. For the rest of his days, he had not a single opportunity to test his skills.
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