I have always come to life after coming to books.
JORGE LUIS BORGESThe tango is a direct expression of something that poets have often tried to state in words: the belief that a fight may be a celebration.
More Jorge Luis Borges Quotes
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There’s no need to build a labyrinth when the entire universe is one.
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Life itself is a quotation.
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I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.
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The mightiest love was granted him Love that does not expect to be loved.
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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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In Spanish it is very difficult to make things flow, because words are over-long. But in English, you have light words.
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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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Art is endless like a river flowing, passing, yet remaining.
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I have preferred to teach my students not English literature but my love for certain authors, or, even better, certain pages, or even better than that, certain lines. One falls in love with a line, then with a page, then with an author. Well, why not? It is a beautiful process.
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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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I have committed the worst of sins one can commit. I have not been happy.
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Democracy is an abuse of statistics.
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The mind was dreaming. The world was its dream.
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It also occurred to him that throughout history, humankind has told two stories: the story of a lost ship sailing the Mediterranean seas in quest of a beloved isle, and the story of a god who allows himself to be crucified on Golgotha.
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The possibilities of the art of combination are not infinite, but they tend to be frightful.
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