Being with you and not being with you is the only way I have to measure time.
JORGE LUIS BORGESEach thing implies the universe.
More Jorge Luis Borges Quotes
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The task of art is to transform what is continuously happening to us, to transform all of these things into symbols, into music, into something which can last in man’s memory. That is our duty. If we don’t fulfill it, we feel unhappy.
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Time is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire.
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Each thing implies the universe.
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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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The flattery of posterity is not worth much more than contemporary flattery, which is worth nothing.
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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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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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When I wake up, I wake to something worse. It’s the astonishment of being myself.
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Death is just infinity closing in.
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I cannot sleep unless I am surrounded by books.
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When I write, I do it urged by an intimate necessity. I don’t have in mind an exclusive public, or a public of multitudes, I don’t think in either thing. I think about expressing what I want to say. I try to do it in the simplest way possible.
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In my next life I will try to commit more errors.
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The Falklands thing was a fight between two bald men over a comb.
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The fact is that poetry is not the books in the library. Poetry is the encounter of the reader with the book, the discovery of the book.
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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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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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A writer – and, I believe, generally all persons – must think that whatever happens to him or her is a resource.
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I do not write for a select minority, which means nothing to me, nor for that adulated platonic entity known as ‘The Masses’. Both abstractions, so dear to the demagogue, I disbelieve in. I write for myself and for my friends, and I write to ease the passing of time.
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We have a very precise image – an image at times shameless – of what we have lost, but we are ignorant of what may follow or replace it.
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I saw all the mirrors on earth and none of them reflected me.
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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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When you come right down to it, opinions are the most superficial things about anyone.
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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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He was very religious; he believed that he had a secret pact with God which exempted him from doing good in exchange for prayers and piety.
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We accept reality so readily – perhaps because we sense that nothing is real.
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