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 BORGESEvery man should be capable of all ideas.
More Jorge Luis Borges Quotes
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It is clear that there is no classification of the Universe that is not arbitrary and full of conjectures. The reason for this is very simple: we do not know what kind of thing the universe is.
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I have committed the worst of sins one can commit. I have not been happy.
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Dictatorships foster oppression, dictatorships foster servitude, dictatorships foster cruelty; more abominable is the fact that they foster idiocy.
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Many of the characters are fools and they’re always playing tricks on me and treating me badly.
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May Heaven exist, even if my place is Hell.
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I am not sure of anything, I know nothing. Can you imagine that I don’t even know the date of my own death?
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The central fact of my life has been the existence of words and the possibility of weaving those words into poetry.
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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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So plant your own gardens and decorate your own soul, instead of waiting for someone to bring you flowers.
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It’s a shame that we have to choose between two such second-rate countries as the USSR and the USA.
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We have stopped believing in progress. What progress that is !
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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 word happiness exists in every language; it is plausible the thing itself exists.
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Personally, I am a hedonistic reader; I have never read a book merely because it was ancient. I read books for the aesthetic emotions they offer me, and I ignore the commentaries and criticism.
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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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