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.
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 think that the reader should enrich what he is reading. He should misunderstand the text; he should change it into something else.
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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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Happy are the beloved and the lovers and those who can live without love.
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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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I am not sure of anything, I know nothing. Can you imagine that I don’t even know the date of my own death?
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In adultery, there is usually tenderness and self-sacrifice; in murder, courage; in profanation and blasphemy, a certain satanic splendour. Judas elected those offences unvisited by any virtues: abuse of confidence and informing.
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I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.
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A book is not an isolated being: it is a relationship, an axis of innumerable relationships
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The future is inevitable and precise, but it may not occur. God lurks in the gaps.
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Time can’t be measured in days the way money is measured in pesos and centavos, because all pesos are equal, while every day, perhaps every hour, is different.
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Reality is partial to symmetry and slight anachronisms
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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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Thus my life is a flight and I lose everything and everything belongs to oblivion, or to him.
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It also occurred to him that throughout history, humankind has told two stories: the story of a lost ship sailing the Mediterranean seas in quest of a beloved isle, and the story of a god who allows himself to be crucified on Golgotha.
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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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