To arrange a library is to practice in a quiet and modest way the art of criticism.
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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The sea is an idiom I cannot decipher.
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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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Your unforgivable sins do not allow you to see my splendor.
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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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We have stopped believing in progress. What progress that is !
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My books standing there on the shelf do not know that I have written them.
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Man’s memory shapes Its own Eden within.
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Time, which despoils castles, enriches verses.
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When you come right down to it, opinions are the most superficial things about anyone.
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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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The flattery of posterity is not worth much more than contemporary flattery, which is worth nothing.
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The original is unfaithful to the translation.
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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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Writing is nothing more than a guided dream.
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Reality favors symmetry.
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