He thought that the rose was to be found in its own eternity and not in his words; and that we may mention or allude to a thing, but not express it.
JORGE LUIS BORGESHeaven and hell seem out of proportion to me: the actions of men do not deserve so much.
More Jorge Luis Borges Quotes
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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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The possibilities of the art of combination are not infinite, but they tend to be frightful.
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In my next life I will try to commit more errors.
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A poet is a discoverer rather than an inventor.
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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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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 book is not an isolated being: it is a relationship, an axis of innumerable relationships
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We forget that we are all dead men conversing with dead men.
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Happy are the beloved and the lovers and those who can live without love.
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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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May Heaven exist, even if my place is Hell.
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I walk slowly, like one who comes from so far away he doesn’t expect to arrive.
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What a writer wants to do is not what he does.
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When writers die they become books, which is, after all, not too bad an incarnation.
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What you really value is what you miss, not what you have.
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How can we manage to illuminate the pathos of our lives?
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He consorted with prostitutes and poets and with persons even worse.
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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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Don’t talk unless you can improve the silence.
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Israelites, Christians and Muslims profess immortality, but the veneration they render this world proves they believe only in it, since they destine all other worlds, in infinite number, to be its reward or punishment.
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The man who acquires an encyclopedia does not thereby acquire every line, every paragraph, every page, and every illustration; he acquires the possibility of becoming familiar with one and another of those things.
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When you come right down to it, opinions are the most superficial things about anyone.
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Writing is nothing more than a guided dream.
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I believe that in time we will have reached the point where we will deserve to be free of government.
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Thus my life is a flight and I lose everything and everything belongs to oblivion, or to him.
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Being an agnostic means all things are possible, even God, even the Holy Trinity. This world is so strange that anything may happen, or may not happen. Being an agnostic makes me live in a larger, a more fantastic kind of world, almost uncanny. It makes me more tolerant.
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