Man’s memory shapes Its own Eden within.
JORGE LUIS BORGESYou may win your heart’s desire, but in the end you’re cheated of it by death.
More Jorge Luis Borges Quotes
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Do you want to see what human eyes have never seen? Look at the moon. Do you want to hear what ears have never heard? Listen to the bird’s cry. Do you want to touch what hands have never touched? Touch the earth. Verily I say that God is about to create the world.
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To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.
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I have committed the worst of sins one can commit. I have not been happy.
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The truth is that we live out our lives putting off all that can be put off; perhaps we all know deep down that we are immortal and that sooner or later all men will do and know all things.
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It also occurred to him that throughout history, humankind has told two stories: the story of a lost ship sailing the Mediterranean seas in quest of a beloved isle, and the story of a god who allows himself to be crucified on Golgotha.
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I believe books will never disappear. It is impossible for it to happen. Of all man’s diverse tools, undoubtedly the most astounding are his books… If books were to disappear, history would disappear. So would man.
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My books standing there on the shelf do not know that I have written them.
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Only in the present do things happen.
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The visible universe was an illusion or, more precisely, a sophism. Mirrors and fatherhood are abominable because they multiply it and extend it.
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Creativity is suspended between memory and forgetting.
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Art is endless like a river flowing, passing, yet remaining.
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The flattery of posterity is not worth much more than contemporary flattery, which is worth nothing.
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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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In general, every country has the language it deserves.
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Time, which despoils castles, enriches verses.
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