I walk slowly, like one who comes from so far away he doesn’t expect to arrive.
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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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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Heaven and hell seem out of proportion to me: the actions of men do not deserve so much.
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I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.
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Nothing is built on stone; all is built on sand, but we must build as if the sand were stone.
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What will die with me when I die, what pathetic or fragile form will the world lose?
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If space is infinite, we may be at any point in space. If time is infinite, we may be at any point in time.
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When you come right down to it, opinions are the most superficial things about anyone.
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Happy are the beloved and the lovers and those who can live without love.
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To die for a religion is easier than to live it absolutely.
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The man who acquires an encyclopedia does not thereby acquire every line, every paragraph, every page, and every illustration; he acquires the possibility of becoming familiar with one and another of those things.
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When I wake up, I wake to something worse. It’s the astonishment of being myself.
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I am almost sure to be blotted out by death, but sometimes I think it is not impossible that I may continue to live in some other manner after my physical death . Or, as Hamlet wonders, what dreams will come when we leave this body?
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The mind was dreaming. The world was its dream.
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He consorted with prostitutes and poets and with persons even worse.
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I cannot walk through the suburbs in the solitude of the night without thinking that the night pleases us because it suppresses idle details, just as our memory does.
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It’s a shame that we have to choose between two such second-rate countries as the USSR and the USA.
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Time, which despoils castles, enriches verses.
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We are our memory, we are that chimerical museum of shifting shapes, that pile of broken mirrors.
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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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I have sometimes suspected that the only thing that holds no mystery is happiness, because it is its own justification.
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What a writer wants to do is not what he does.
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Being with you and not being with you is the only way I have to measure time.
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The future is as irrevocable as an inflexible yesterday.
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Only in the present do things happen.
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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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