The flattery of posterity is not worth much more than contemporary flattery, which is worth nothing.
JORGE LUIS BORGESMay Heaven exist, even if my place is Hell.
More Jorge Luis Borges Quotes
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A writer needs loneliness, and he gets his share of it. He needs love, and he gets shared and also unshared love. He needs friendship. In fact, he needs the universe. To be a writer is, in a sense, to be a day-dreamer – to be living a kind of double life.
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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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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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What will die with me when I die, what pathetic or fragile form will the world lose?
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Censorship is the mother of metaphor.
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Only in the present do things happen.
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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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The tango is a direct expression of something that poets have often tried to state in words: the belief that a fight may be a celebration.
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There is nothing in the world that is not mysterious, but the mystery is more evident in certain things than in others: in the sea, in the eyes of the elders, in the color yellow, and in music.
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Doubt is one of the names of intelligence.
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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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The future is as irrevocable as an inflexible yesterday.
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What you really value is what you miss, not what you have.
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I foresee that man will resign himself each day to new abominations, and soon that only bandits and soldiers will be left.
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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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