What you really value is what you miss, not what you have.
JORGE LUIS BORGESTime, which despoils castles, enriches verses.
More Jorge Luis Borges Quotes
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Loneliness does not worry me; life is difficult enough, putting up with yourself and with your own habits.
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Whoever would undertake some atrocious enterprise should act as if it were already accomplished should impose upon himself a future as irrevocable as the past.
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Time is the tiger that devours me, but I am that tiger.
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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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No one is a poet from eight to twelve and from two to six. Whoever is a poet is one always, and continually assaulted by poetry.
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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 nothing in the world that is not mysterious, but the mystery is more evident in certain things than in others: in the sea, in the eyes of the elders, in the color yellow, and in music.
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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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A writer should have another lifetime to see if he’s appreciated.
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Art is endless like a river flowing, passing, yet remaining.
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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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The mightiest love was granted him Love that does not expect to be loved.
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When I wake up, I wake to something worse. It’s the astonishment of being myself.
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The flattery of posterity is not worth much more than contemporary flattery, which is worth nothing.
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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 central fact of my life has been the existence of words and the possibility of weaving those words into poetry.
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If space is infinite, we may be at any point in space. If time is infinite, we may be at any point in time.
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Time, which despoils castles, enriches verses.
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Don’t talk unless you can improve the silence.
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I foresee that man will resign himself each day to new abominations, and soon that only bandits and soldiers will be left.
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I might accept immortality, if I had to do it. But I would prefer – if there is any afterlife – to know nothing whatever about Borges, about his experiences in this world.
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A poet is a discoverer rather than an inventor.
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There is no point in being overwhelmed by the appalling total of human sufferring; such a total does not exist. Neither poverty nor pain is accumulable.
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Art is very mysterious. I wonder if you can really do any damage to art. I think that when we’re writing, something comes through or should come through, in spite of our theories. So theories are not really important.
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In all fiction, when a man is faced with alternatives he chooses one at the expense of others.
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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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