To 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.
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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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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Reality is partial to symmetry and slight anachronisms
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Man’s memory shapes Its own Eden within.
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To arrange a library is to practice in a quiet and modest way the art of criticism.
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I think that the reader should enrich what he is reading. He should misunderstand the text; he should change it into something else.
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In general, every country has the language it deserves.
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Democracy is an abuse of statistics.
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In my next life I will try to commit more errors.
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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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I believe that in time we will have reached the point where we will deserve to be free of government.
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You can’t measure time by days, the way you measure money by dollars and cents, because dollars are all the same while every day is different and maybe every hour as well.
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I suppose identity depends on memory. And if my memory is blotted out, then I wonder if I exist – I mean, if I am the same person. Of course, I don’t have to solve that problem. It’s up to God, if any.
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Poets, like the blind, can see in the dark.
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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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Doubt is one of the names of intelligence.
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