A writer should have another lifetime to see if he’s appreciated.
JORGE LUIS BORGESWhat you really value is what you miss, not what you have.
More Jorge Luis Borges Quotes
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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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Time 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.
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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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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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Death is just infinity closing in.
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I saw all the mirrors on earth and none of them reflected me.
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The word happiness exists in every language; it is plausible the thing itself exists.
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I have sometimes suspected that the only thing that holds no mystery is happiness, because it is its own justification.
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Art is endless like a river flowing, passing, yet remaining.
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What will die with me when I die, what pathetic or fragile form will the world lose?
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I ask of any God, of any gods, that if they give immortality, I hope to be granted oblivion also.
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Poets, like the blind, can see in the dark.
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The fact is that poetry is not the books in the library. Poetry is the encounter of the reader with the book, the discovery of the book.
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In all fiction, when a man is faced with alternatives he chooses one at the expense of others.
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Happy are the beloved and the lovers and those who can live without love.
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