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.
JORGE LUIS BORGESIf I were asked to name the chief event in my life, I should say my father’s library.
More Jorge Luis Borges Quotes
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Reality favors symmetry.
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Heaven and hell seem out of proportion to me: the actions of men do not deserve so much.
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Truth never penetrates an unwilling mind.
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Soccer is popular because stupidity is popular.
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How can we manage to illuminate the pathos of our lives?
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The minotaur more than justifies the existence of the labyrinth.
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I ask of any God, of any gods, that if they give immortality, I hope to be granted oblivion also.
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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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Time is the tiger that devours me, but I am that tiger.
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Reality is not always probable, or likely.
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The 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.
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When writers die they become books, which is, after all, not too bad an incarnation.
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Loneliness does not worry me; life is difficult enough, putting up with yourself and with your own habits.
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The things that are said in literature are always the same. What is important is the way they are said.
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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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