You may win your heart’s desire, but in the end you’re cheated of it by death.
JORGE LUIS BORGESThe 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.
More Jorge Luis Borges Quotes
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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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I saw a sunset in Queretaro that seemed to reflect the color of a rose in Bengal.
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It’s a shame that we have to choose between two such second-rate countries as the USSR and the USA.
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Then I reflect that all things happen, happen to one, precisely now. Century follows century, and things happen only in the present. There are countless men in the air, on land and at sea, and all that really happens happens to me.
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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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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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What a writer wants to do is not what he does.
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When I write, I do it urged by an intimate necessity. I don’t have in mind an exclusive public, or a public of multitudes, I don’t think in either thing. I think about expressing what I want to say. I try to do it in the simplest way possible.
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He consorted with prostitutes and poets and with persons even worse.
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I cannot walk through the suburbs in the solitude of the night without thinking that the night pleases us because it suppresses idle details, just as our memory does.
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The original is unfaithful to the translation.
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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 have always come to life after coming to books.
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What you really value is what you miss, not what you have.
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Reality is not always probable, or likely.
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