The tango is a direct expression of something that poets have often tried to state in words: the belief that a fight may be a celebration.
JORGE LUIS BORGESThere 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.
More Jorge Luis Borges Quotes
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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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Soccer is popular because stupidity is popular.
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Being an agnostic means all things are possible, even God, even the Holy Trinity. This world is so strange that anything may happen, or may not happen. Being an agnostic makes me live in a larger, a more fantastic kind of world, almost uncanny. It makes me more tolerant.
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I had always thought of Paradise / In form and image as a library.
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The word happiness exists in every language; it is plausible the thing itself exists.
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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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Heaven and hell seem out of proportion to me: the actions of men do not deserve so much.
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When I wake up, I wake to something worse. It’s the astonishment of being myself.
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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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The mightiest love was granted him Love that does not expect to be loved.
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We are our memory, we are that chimerical museum of shifting shapes, that pile of broken mirrors.
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A book is not an isolated being: it is a relationship, an axis of innumerable relationships
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In general, every country has the language it deserves.
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He consorted with prostitutes and poets and with persons even worse.
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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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