Reality is partial to symmetry and slight anachronisms
JORGE LUIS BORGESI cannot sleep unless I am surrounded by books.
More Jorge Luis Borges Quotes
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My undertaking is not difficult, essentially. I should only have to be immortal to carry it out.
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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.
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A writer should have another lifetime to see if he’s appreciated.
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I thought that a man can be an enemy of other men, of the moments of other men, but not of a country: not of fireflies, words, gardens, streams of water, sunsets.
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The minotaur more than justifies the existence of the labyrinth.
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I cannot sleep unless I am surrounded by books.
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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 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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He consorted with prostitutes and poets and with persons even worse.
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When you come right down to it, opinions are the most superficial things about anyone.
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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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The things that are said in literature are always the same. What is important is the way they are said.
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Art is endless like a river flowing, passing, yet remaining.
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The task of art is to transform what is continuously happening to us, to transform all of these things into symbols, into music, into something which can last in man’s memory. That is our duty. If we don’t fulfill it, we feel unhappy.
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Creativity is suspended between memory and forgetting.
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