Loneliness does not worry me; life is difficult enough, putting up with yourself and with your own habits.
JORGE LUIS BORGESA poet is a discoverer rather than an inventor.
More Jorge Luis Borges Quotes
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When you reach my age, you realize you couldn’t have done things very much better or much worse than you did them in the first place.
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Happy are the beloved and the lovers and those who can live without love.
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The mind was dreaming. The world was its dream.
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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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Writing is nothing more than a guided dream.
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So plant your own gardens and decorate your own soul, instead of waiting for someone to bring you flowers.
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What will die with me when I die, what pathetic or fragile form will the world lose?
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Soccer is popular because stupidity is popular.
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Time is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire.
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A writer needs loneliness, and he gets his share of it. He needs love, and he gets shared and also unshared love. He needs friendship. In fact, he needs the universe. To be a writer is, in a sense, to be a day-dreamer – to be living a kind of double life.
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The original is unfaithful to the translation.
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From my weakness, I drew strength that never left me.
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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.
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What you really value is what you miss, not what you have.
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Death is just infinity closing in.
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The mightiest love was granted him Love that does not expect to be loved.
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Democracy is an abuse of statistics.
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A writer should have another lifetime to see if he’s appreciated.
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While we are asleep in this world, we are awake in another one.
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Time is the tiger that devours me, but I am that tiger.
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How can we manage to illuminate the pathos of our lives?
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I ask of any God, of any gods, that if they give immortality, I hope to be granted oblivion also.
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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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Time, which despoils castles, enriches verses.
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I have always come to life after coming to books.
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I am not sure of anything, I know nothing. Can you imagine that I don’t even know the date of my own death?
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