In general, every country has the language it deserves.
JORGE LUIS BORGESPoetry remembers that it was an oral art before it was a written art.
More Jorge Luis Borges Quotes
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A poet is a discoverer rather than an inventor.
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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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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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To arrange a library is to practice in a quiet and modest way the art of criticism.
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What you really value is what you miss, not what you have.
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How can we manage to illuminate the pathos of our lives?
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A system is nothing more than the subordination of all aspects of the universe to any one of such aspects.
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May Heaven exist, even if my place is Hell.
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Doubt is one of the names of intelligence.
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I foresee that man will resign himself each day to new abominations, and soon that only bandits and soldiers will be left.
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If space is infinite, we may be at any point in space. If time is infinite, we may be at any point in time.
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So plant your own gardens and decorate your own soul, instead of waiting for someone to bring you flowers.
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Israelites, Christians and Muslims profess immortality, but the veneration they render this world proves they believe only in it, since they destine all other worlds, in infinite number, to be its reward or punishment.
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The minotaur more than justifies the existence of the labyrinth.
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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.
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