I have preferred to teach my students not English literature but my love for certain authors, or, even better, certain pages, or even better than that, certain lines. One falls in love with a line, then with a page, then with an author. Well, why not? It is a beautiful process.
JORGE LUIS BORGESI saw all the mirrors on earth and none of them reflected me.
More Jorge Luis Borges Quotes
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Death is just infinity closing in.
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Each thing implies the universe.
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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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Films are even stranger, for what we are seeing are not disguised people but photographs of disguised people, and yet we believe them while the film is being shown.
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The sea is an idiom I cannot decipher.
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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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I believe that in time we will have reached the point where we will deserve to be free of government.
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I gazed at every mirror on the planet, not one gave back my reflection.
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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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Art is endless like a river flowing, passing, yet remaining.
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May Heaven exist, even if my place is Hell.
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I think of reading a book as no less an experience than travelling or falling in love.
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I think most people are more important than their opinions.
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A poet is a discoverer rather than an inventor.
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The heresies we should fear are those which can be confused with orthodoxy.
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