While we are asleep in this world, we are awake in another one.
JORGE LUIS BORGESCreativity is suspended between memory and forgetting.
More Jorge Luis Borges Quotes
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Reality is not always probable, or likely.
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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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The fact is that poetry is not the books in the library. Poetry is the encounter of the reader with the book, the discovery of the book.
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Time is the substance from which I am made. Time is a river which carries me along, but I am the river; it is a tiger that devours me, but I am the tiger; it is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire.
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What you really value is what you miss, not what you have.
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Time is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire.
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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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He thought that the rose was to be found in its own eternity and not in his words; and that we may mention or allude to a thing, but not express it.
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The mightiest love was granted him Love that does not expect to be loved.
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Soccer is popular because stupidity is popular.
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I saw a sunset in Queretaro that seemed to reflect the color of a rose in Bengal.
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A writer’s work is the product of laziness.
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When one confesses to an act, one ceases to be an actor in it and becomes its witness, becomes a man that observes and narrates it and no longer the man that performed it.
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The heresies we should fear are those which can be confused with orthodoxy.
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Every man should be capable of all ideas.
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