So plant your own gardens and decorate your own soul, instead of waiting for someone to bring you flowers.
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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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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Films are even stranger, for what we are seeing are not disguised people but photographs of disguised people, and yet we believe them while the film is being shown.
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Any life, however long and complicated it may be, actually consists of a single moment — the moment when a man knows forever more who he is.
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Writing long books is a laborious and impoverishing act of foolishness: expanding in five hundred pages an idea that could be perfectly explained in a few minutes. A better procedure is to pretend that those books already exist and to offer a summary, a commentary.
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For me, beauty is a physical sensation, something we feel with our whole body. It is not the result of judgement. We do not arrive at it by way of rules. We either feel beauty or we don’t.
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The Falklands thing was a fight between two bald men over a comb.
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Blindness has not been for me a total misfortune; it should not be seen in a pathetic way. It should be seen as a way of life: one of the styles of living.
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The future is as irrevocable as an inflexible yesterday.
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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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Thus my life is a flight and I lose everything and everything belongs to oblivion, or to him.
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I think of reading a book as no less an experience than travelling or falling in love.
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We forget that we are all dead men conversing with dead men.
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Poets, like the blind, can see in the dark.
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The word happiness exists in every language; it is plausible the thing itself exists.
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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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