To say good-bye is to deny separation; it is to say Today we play at going our own ways, but we’ll see each other tomorrow. Men invented farewells because they somehow knew themselves to be immortal, even while seeing themselves as contingent and ephemeral.
JORGE LUIS BORGESTime 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.
More Jorge Luis Borges Quotes
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What I’m really concerned about is reaching one person. And that person may be myself for all I know.
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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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Being with you and not being with you is the only way I have to measure time.
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From my weakness, I drew strength that never left me.
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The mind was dreaming. The world was its dream.
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Every novel is an ideal plane inserted into the realm of reality.
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When I feel I’m going to write something, then I just am quiet and I try to listen. Then something comes through. And I do what I can in order not to tamper with it.
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The original is unfaithful to the translation.
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The Falklands thing was a fight between two bald men over a comb.
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Time, which despoils castles, enriches verses.
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My books standing there on the shelf do not know that I have written them.
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May Heaven exist, even if my place is Hell.
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No one is a poet from eight to twelve and from two to six. Whoever is a poet is one always, and continually assaulted by poetry.
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Perhaps the apparent favor of the universe is no more than the crocodile grin of a Doberman breathing hard and about to be hungry?
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Creativity is suspended between memory and forgetting.
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