I saw a sunset in Queretaro that seemed to reflect the color of a rose in Bengal.
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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I walk slowly, like one who comes from so far away he doesn’t expect to arrive.
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He 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.
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The heresies we should fear are those which can be confused with orthodoxy.
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He consorted with prostitutes and poets and with persons even worse.
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I never reread what I’ve written. I’m far too afraid to feel ashamed of what I’ve done.
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I would rather like to think of God as being a kind of adventurer – even as Wells thought about him – or perhaps as something within us making for some unknown purpose.
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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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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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I thought that a man can be an enemy of other men, of the moments of other men, but not of a country: not of fireflies, words, gardens, streams of water, sunsets.
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He was very religious; he believed that he had a secret pact with God which exempted him from doing good in exchange for prayers and piety.
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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 saw all the mirrors on earth and none of them reflected me.
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There is an hour of the afternoon when the plain is on the verge of saying something. It never says, or perhaps it says it infinitely, or perhaps we do not understand it, or we understand it and it is untranslatable as music.
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To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.
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I have always come to life after coming to books.
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