I think of reading a book as no less an experience than travelling or falling in love.
JORGE LUIS BORGESSo plant your own gardens and decorate your own soul, instead of waiting for someone to bring you flowers.
More Jorge Luis Borges Quotes
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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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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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I saw a sunset in Queretaro that seemed to reflect the color of a rose in Bengal.
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I can give you my loneliness, my darkness, the hunger of my heart, I am trying to bribe you with uncertainty, with danger, with defeat.
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From my weakness, I drew strength that never left me.
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Poetry remembers that it was an oral art before it was a written art.
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To die for a religion is easier than to live it absolutely.
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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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I am not sure that I exist, actually. I am all the writers that I have read, all the people that I have met, all the women that I have loved; all the cities I have visited.
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The word happiness exists in every language; it is plausible the thing itself exists.
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Do you want to see what human eyes have never seen? Look at the moon. Do you want to hear what ears have never heard? Listen to the bird’s cry. Do you want to touch what hands have never touched? Touch the earth. Verily I say that God is about to create the world.
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I think most people are more important than their opinions.
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How can we manage to illuminate the pathos of our lives?
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May Heaven exist, even if my place is Hell.
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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 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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Democracy is an abuse of statistics.
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I saw all the mirrors on earth and none of them reflected me.
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I have always come to life after coming to books.
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It is clear that there is no classification of the Universe that is not arbitrary and full of conjectures. The reason for this is very simple: we do not know what kind of thing the universe is.
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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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Reality is partial to symmetry and slight anachronisms
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In general, every country has the language it deserves.
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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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Soccer is popular because stupidity is popular.
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