Israelites, Christians and Muslims profess immortality, but the veneration they render this world proves they believe only in it, since they destine all other worlds, in infinite number, to be its reward or punishment.
JORGE LUIS BORGESHe thought that the rose was to be found in its own eternity and not in his words; and that we may mention or allude to a thing, but not express it.
More Jorge Luis Borges Quotes
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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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Beyond my anxiety, beyond this writing, the universe waits, inexhaustible, inviting.
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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.
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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.
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The earth we inhabit is an error, an incompetent parody. Mirrors and paternity are abominable because they multiply and affirm it.
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There is no point in being overwhelmed by the appalling total of human sufferring; such a total does not exist. Neither poverty nor pain is accumulable.
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Time is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire.
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We accept reality so readily – perhaps because we sense that nothing is real.
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A poet is a discoverer rather than an inventor.
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It means much to have loved, to have been happy, to have laid my hand on the living Garden, even for a day.
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A book is not an isolated being: it is a relationship, an axis of innumerable relationships
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Chang Tzu tells us of a persevering man who after three laborious years mastered the art of dragon-slaying. For the rest of his days, he had not a single opportunity to test his skills.
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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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The future has no other reality than as present hope, and the past is no more than present memory.
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He was very religious; he believed that he had a secret pact with God which exempted him from doing good in exchange for prayers and piety.
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