The sea is an idiom I cannot decipher.
JORGE LUIS BORGESI thought that a man can be an enemy of other men, of the moments of other men, but not of a country: not of fireflies, words, gardens, streams of water, sunsets.
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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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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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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What will die with me when I die, what pathetic or fragile form will the world lose?
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Man’s memory shapes Its own Eden within.
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Your unforgivable sins do not allow you to see my splendor.
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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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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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Doubt is one of the names of intelligence.
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The dictionary is based on the hypothesis — obviously an unproven one — that languages are made up of equivalent synonyms.
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I gazed at every mirror on the planet, not one gave back my reflection.
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Each thing implies the universe.
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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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My books standing there on the shelf do not know that I have written them.
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Truth never penetrates an unwilling mind.
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