I 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.
JORGE LUIS BORGESI 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?
More Jorge Luis Borges Quotes
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I gazed at every mirror on the planet, not one gave back my reflection.
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I never reread what I’ve written. I’m far too afraid to feel ashamed of what I’ve done.
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A system is nothing more than the subordination of all aspects of the universe to any one of such aspects.
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I can give you my loneliness, my darkness, the hunger of my heart, I am trying to bribe you with uncertainty, with danger, with defeat.
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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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To arrange a library is to practice in a quiet and modest way the art of criticism.
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Every man should be capable of all ideas.
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A poet is a discoverer rather than an inventor.
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The possibilities of the art of combination are not infinite, but they tend to be frightful.
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The sea is an idiom I cannot decipher.
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I cannot sleep unless I am surrounded by books.
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The future is inevitable and precise, but it may not occur. God lurks in the gaps.
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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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While we are asleep in this world, we are awake in another one.
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Death is just infinity closing in.
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