Time is the tiger that devours me, but I am that tiger.
JORGE LUIS BORGESTo die for a religion is easier than to live it absolutely.
More Jorge Luis Borges Quotes
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The original is unfaithful to the translation.
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Writing is nothing more than a guided dream.
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You may win your heart’s desire, but in the end you’re cheated of it by death.
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When I wake up, I wake to something worse. It’s the astonishment of being myself.
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The worst labyrinth is not that intricate form that can entrap us forever, but a single and precise straight line.
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Reality is partial to symmetry and slight anachronisms
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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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What I’m really concerned about is reaching one person. And that person may be myself for all I know.
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There is an hour of the afternoon when the plain is on the verge of saying something. It never says, or perhaps it says it infinitely, or perhaps we do not understand it, or we understand it and it is untranslatable as music.
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The word happiness exists in every language; it is plausible the thing itself exists.
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A book is not an isolated being: it is a relationship, an axis of innumerable relationships
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Being with you and not being with you is the only way I have to measure time.
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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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In my next life I will try to commit more errors.
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Man’s memory shapes Its own Eden within.
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