The truth is that we live out our lives putting off all that can be put off; perhaps we all know deep down that we are immortal and that sooner or later all men will do and know all things.
JORGE LUIS BORGESWhen writers die they become books, which is, after all, not too bad an incarnation.
More Jorge Luis Borges Quotes
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I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.
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The dictionary is based on the hypothesis — obviously an unproven one — that languages are made up of equivalent synonyms.
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I cannot sleep unless I am surrounded by books.
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There is an hour of the afternoon when the plain is on the verge of saying something. It never says, or perhaps it says it infinitely, or perhaps we do not understand it, or we understand it and it is untranslatable as music.
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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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My undertaking is not difficult, essentially. I should only have to be immortal to carry it out.
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I can give you my loneliness, my darkness, the hunger of my heart, I am trying to bribe you with uncertainty, with danger, with defeat.
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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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Democracy is an abuse of statistics.
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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 should have another lifetime to see if he’s appreciated.
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I saw all the mirrors on earth and none of them reflected me.
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Death is just infinity closing in.
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We accept reality so readily – perhaps because we sense that nothing is real.
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I saw a sunset in Queretaro that seemed to reflect the color of a rose in Bengal.
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Poets, like the blind, can see in the dark.
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Reality favors symmetry.
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In general, every country has the language it deserves.
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Nothing is built on stone; all is built on sand, but we must build as if the sand were stone.
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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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In adultery, there is usually tenderness and self-sacrifice; in murder, courage; in profanation and blasphemy, a certain satanic splendour. Judas elected those offences unvisited by any virtues: abuse of confidence and informing.
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Truth never penetrates an unwilling mind.
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The minotaur more than justifies the existence of the labyrinth.
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Only in the present do things happen.
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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 possibilities of the art of combination are not infinite, but they tend to be frightful.
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