It means much to have loved, to have been happy, to have laid my hand on the living Garden, even for a day.
JORGE LUIS BORGESI walk slowly, like one who comes from so far away he doesn’t expect to arrive.
More Jorge Luis Borges Quotes
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I believe that in time we will have reached the point where we will deserve to be free of government.
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The mind was dreaming. The world was its dream.
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The sea is an idiom I cannot decipher.
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The mightiest love was granted him Love that does not expect to be loved.
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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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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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I ask of any God, of any gods, that if they give immortality, I hope to be granted oblivion also.
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Man’s memory shapes Its own Eden within.
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When writers die they become books, which is, after all, not too bad an incarnation.
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He consorted with prostitutes and poets and with persons even worse.
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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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I cannot walk through the suburbs in the solitude of the night without thinking that the night pleases us because it suppresses idle details, just as our memory does.
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Time is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire.
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I gazed at every mirror on the planet, not one gave back my reflection.
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Let others pride themselves about how many pages they have written; I’d rather boast about the ones I’ve read.
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