To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.
JORGE LUIS BORGES
He 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 fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.
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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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Nothing is built on stone; all is built on sand, but we must build as if the sand were stone.
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Reality may avoid the obligation to be interesting, but hypotheses may not.
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Art is endless like a river flowing, passing, yet remaining.
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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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All that happens to us, including our humiliations, our misfortunes, our embarrassments, all is given to us as raw material, as clay, so that we may shape our art.
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The truth is that we live out our lives putting off all that can be put off; perhaps we all know deep down that we are immortal and that sooner or later all men will do and know all things.
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The flattery of posterity is not worth much more than contemporary flattery, which is worth nothing.
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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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In Spanish it is very difficult to make things flow, because words are over-long. But in English, you have light words.
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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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May Heaven exist, even if my place is Hell.
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You can’t measure time by days, the way you measure money by dollars and cents, because dollars are all the same while every day is different and maybe every hour as well.
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When you come right down to it, opinions are the most superficial things about anyone.
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