There is an hour of the afternoon when the plain is on the verge of saying something. It never says, or perhaps it says it infinitely, or perhaps we do not understand it, or we understand it and it is untranslatable as music.
JORGE LUIS BORGESA writer – and, I believe, generally all persons – must think that whatever happens to him or her is a resource.
More Jorge Luis Borges Quotes
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A writer – and, I believe, generally all persons – must think that whatever happens to him or her is a resource.
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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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The Falklands thing was a fight between two bald men over a comb.
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Poetry remembers that it was an oral art before it was a written art.
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The central fact of my life has been the existence of words and the possibility of weaving those words into poetry.
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How can we manage to illuminate the pathos of our lives?
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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 always come to life after coming to books.
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When I wake up, I wake to something worse. It’s the astonishment of being myself.
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The future is as irrevocable as an inflexible yesterday.
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Everything touches everything.
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Don’t talk unless you can improve the silence.
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I had always thought of Paradise / In form and image as a library.
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We have stopped believing in progress. What progress that is !
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Each thing implies the universe.
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