There is an hour of the afternoon when the plain is on the verge of saying something. It never says, or perhaps it says it infinitely, or perhaps we do not understand it, or we understand it and it is untranslatable as music.
JORGE LUIS BORGESI am not sure that I exist, actually. I am all the writers that I have read, all the people that I have met, all the women that I have loved; all the cities I have visited.
More Jorge Luis Borges Quotes
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I think most people are more important than their opinions.
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You may win your heart’s desire, but in the end you’re cheated of it by death.
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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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Every novel is an ideal plane inserted into the realm of reality.
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The things that are said in literature are always the same. What is important is the way they are said.
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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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We accept reality so readily – perhaps because we sense that nothing is real.
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The word happiness exists in every language; it is plausible the thing itself exists.
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A writer should have another lifetime to see if he’s appreciated.
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Happy are the beloved and the lovers and those who can live without love.
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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 mightiest love was granted him Love that does not expect to be loved.
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Poetry remembers that it was an oral art before it was a written art.
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A man sets himself the task of portraying the world. Shortly before he dies he discovers that this patient labyrinth of lines is a drawing of his own face.
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My undertaking is not difficult, essentially. I should only have to be immortal to carry it out.
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