When I wake up, I wake to something worse. It’s the astonishment of being myself.
JORGE LUIS BORGESIn my next life I will try to commit more errors.
More Jorge Luis Borges Quotes
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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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Beyond my anxiety, beyond this writing, the universe waits, inexhaustible, inviting.
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Every novel is an ideal plane inserted into the realm of reality.
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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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Reality is partial to symmetry and slight anachronisms
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The earth we inhabit is an error, an incompetent parody. Mirrors and paternity are abominable because they multiply and affirm it.
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A writer should have another lifetime to see if he’s appreciated.
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In general, every country has the language it deserves.
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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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What I’m really concerned about is reaching one person. And that person may be myself for all I know.
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My books standing there on the shelf do not know that I have written them.
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Art is endless like a river flowing, passing, yet remaining.
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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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The mind was dreaming. The world was its dream.
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Censorship is the mother of metaphor.
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