Beyond my anxiety, beyond this writing, the universe waits, inexhaustible, inviting.
JORGE LUIS BORGESI foresee that man will resign himself each day to new abominations, and soon that only bandits and soldiers will be left.
More Jorge Luis Borges Quotes
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What a writer wants to do is not what he does.
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We have stopped believing in progress. What progress that is !
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We forget that we are all dead men conversing with dead men.
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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.
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The future is inevitable and precise, but it may not occur. God lurks in the gaps.
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Then I reflect that all things happen, happen to one, precisely now. Century follows century, and things happen only in the present. There are countless men in the air, on land and at sea, and all that really happens happens to me.
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The central fact of my life has been the existence of words and the possibility of weaving those words into poetry.
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I have committed the worst of sins one can commit. I have not been happy.
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I never reread what I’ve written. I’m far too afraid to feel ashamed of what I’ve done.
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While we are asleep in this world, we are awake in another one.
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To be immortal is commonplace; except for man, all creatures are immortal, for they are ignorant of death; what is divine, terrible, incomprehensible, is to know that one is immortal.
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I would rather like to think of God as being a kind of adventurer – even as Wells thought about him – or perhaps as something within us making for some unknown purpose.
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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 have always come to life after coming to books.
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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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In our dreams (writes Coleridge) images represent the sensations we think they cause; we do not feel horror because we are threatened by a sphinx; we dream of a sphinx in order to explain the horror we feel.
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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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When you come right down to it, opinions are the most superficial things about anyone.
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Poets, like the blind, can see in the dark.
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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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What you really value is what you miss, not what you have.
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Poetry remembers that it was an oral art before it was a written art.
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The visible universe was an illusion or, more precisely, a sophism. Mirrors and fatherhood are abominable because they multiply it and extend it.
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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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Time is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire.
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The possibilities of the art of combination are not infinite, but they tend to be frightful.
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