The word happiness exists in every language; it is plausible the thing itself exists.
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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Do you want to see what human eyes have never seen? Look at the moon. Do you want to hear what ears have never heard? Listen to the bird’s cry. Do you want to touch what hands have never touched? Touch the earth. Verily I say that God is about to create the world.
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The heresies we should fear are those which can be confused with orthodoxy.
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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 truth is that we live out our lives putting off all that can be put off; perhaps we all know deep down that we are immortal and that sooner or later all men will do and know all things.
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I ask of any God, of any gods, that if they give immortality, I hope to be granted oblivion also.
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What I’m really concerned about is reaching one person. And that person may be myself for all I know.
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I think that the reader should enrich what he is reading. He should misunderstand the text; he should change it into something else.
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The sea is an idiom I cannot decipher.
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The worst labyrinth is not that intricate form that can entrap us forever, but a single and precise straight line.
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Soccer is popular because stupidity is popular.
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Your unforgivable sins do not allow you to see my splendor.
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In general, every country has the language it deserves.
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Whoever would undertake some atrocious enterprise should act as if it were already accomplished should impose upon himself a future as irrevocable as the past.
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Don’t talk unless you can improve the silence.
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I suppose identity depends on memory. And if my memory is blotted out, then I wonder if I exist – I mean, if I am the same person. Of course, I don’t have to solve that problem. It’s up to God, if any.
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