I would rather like to think of God as being a kind of adventurer – even as Wells thought about him – or perhaps as something within us making for some unknown purpose.
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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To arrange a library is to practice in a quiet and modest way the art of criticism.
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How can we manage to illuminate the pathos of our lives?
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Doubt is one of the names of intelligence.
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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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Time is the substance from which I am made. Time is a river which carries me along, but I am the river; it is a tiger that devours me, but I am the tiger; it is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire.
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So plant your own gardens and decorate your own soul, instead of waiting for someone to bring you flowers.
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To be immortal is commonplace; except for man, all creatures are immortal, for they are ignorant of death; what is divine, terrible, incomprehensible, is to know that one is immortal.
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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 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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I saw a sunset in Queretaro that seemed to reflect the color of a rose in Bengal.
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We forget that we are all dead men conversing with dead men.
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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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Every man should be capable of all ideas.
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Censorship is the mother of metaphor.
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We have a very precise image – an image at times shameless – of what we have lost, but we are ignorant of what may follow or replace it.
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