Blindness has not been for me a total misfortune; it should not be seen in a pathetic way. It should be seen as a way of life: one of the styles of living.
JORGE LUIS BORGESWriting is nothing more than a guided dream.
More Jorge Luis Borges Quotes
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A writer should have another lifetime to see if he’s appreciated.
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Truth never penetrates an unwilling mind.
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May Heaven exist, even if my place is Hell.
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Reality favors symmetry.
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We forget that we are all dead men conversing with dead men.
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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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It is clear that there is no classification of the Universe that is not arbitrary and full of conjectures. The reason for this is very simple: we do not know what kind of thing the universe is.
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Each thing implies the universe.
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The things that are said in literature are always the same. What is important is the way they are said.
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The mind was dreaming. The world was its dream.
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Art is endless like a river flowing, passing, yet remaining.
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I am almost sure to be blotted out by death, but sometimes I think it is not impossible that I may continue to live in some other manner after my physical death . Or, as Hamlet wonders, what dreams will come when we leave this body?
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We have a very precise image – an image at times shameless – of what we have lost, but we are ignorant of what may follow or replace it.
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I think most people are more important than their opinions.
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Another school declares that all time has already transpired and that our life is only the crepuscular and no doubt falsified and mutilated memory or reflection of an irrecoverable process.
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