Loneliness does not worry me; life is difficult enough, putting up with yourself and with your own habits.
JORGE LUIS BORGESLoneliness does not worry me; life is difficult enough, putting up with yourself and with your own habits.
JORGE LUIS BORGESTime can’t be measured in days the way money is measured in pesos and centavos, because all pesos are equal, while every day, perhaps every hour, is different.
JORGE LUIS BORGESYou have wakened not out of sleep, but into a prior dream, and that dream lies within another, and so on, to infinity, which is the number of grains of sand. The path that you are to take is endless, and you will die before you have truly awakened.
JORGE LUIS BORGESI have sometimes suspected that the only thing that holds no mystery is happiness, because it is its own justification.
JORGE LUIS BORGESThere’s no need to build a labyrinth when the entire universe is one.
JORGE LUIS BORGESWhen I wake up, I wake to something worse. It’s the astonishment of being myself.
JORGE LUIS BORGESIt 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.
JORGE LUIS BORGESCreativity is suspended between memory and forgetting.
JORGE LUIS BORGESThe flattery of posterity is not worth much more than contemporary flattery, which is worth nothing.
JORGE LUIS BORGESMy books standing there on the shelf do not know that I have written them.
JORGE LUIS BORGESThe mind was dreaming. The world was its dream.
JORGE LUIS BORGESAnother 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.
JORGE LUIS BORGESI am not sure that I exist, actually. I am all the writers that I have read, all the people that I have met, all the women that I have loved; all the cities I have visited.
JORGE LUIS BORGESHe 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.
JORGE LUIS BORGESTo die for a religion is easier than to live it absolutely.
JORGE LUIS BORGESMy undertaking is not difficult, essentially. I should only have to be immortal to carry it out.
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