I have always come to life after coming to books.
JORGE LUIS BORGESI have sometimes suspected that the only thing that holds no mystery is happiness, because it is its own justification.
More Jorge Luis Borges Quotes
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I walk slowly, like one who comes from so far away he doesn’t expect to arrive.
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Art is endless like a river flowing, passing, yet remaining.
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The mind was dreaming. The world was its dream.
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In Spanish it is very difficult to make things flow, because words are over-long. But in English, you have light words.
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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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Everything touches everything.
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Writing is nothing more than a guided dream.
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Doubt is one of the names of intelligence.
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We have a very precise image – an image at times shameless – of what we have lost, but we are ignorant of what may follow or replace it.
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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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Reality favors symmetry.
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Life itself is a quotation.
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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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I gazed at every mirror on the planet, not one gave back my reflection.
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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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