It means much to have loved, to have been happy, to have laid my hand on the living Garden, even for a day.
JORGE LUIS BORGESIn Spanish it is very difficult to make things flow, because words are over-long. But in English, you have light words.
More Jorge Luis Borges Quotes
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I might accept immortality, if I had to do it. But I would prefer – if there is any afterlife – to know nothing whatever about Borges, about his experiences in this world.
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Death is just infinity closing in.
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Time is the substance from which I am made. Time is a river which carries me along, but I am the river; it is a tiger that devours me, but I am the tiger; it is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire.
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The heresies we should fear are those which can be confused with orthodoxy.
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No one is anyone, one single immortal man is all men. Like Cornelius Agrippa, I am god, I am hero, I am philosopher, I am demon and I am world, which is a tedious way of saying that I do not exist.
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I saw a sunset in Queretaro that seemed to reflect the color of a rose in Bengal.
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When you reach my age, you realize you couldn’t have done things very much better or much worse than you did them in the first place.
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I gazed at every mirror on the planet, not one gave back my reflection.
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I am almost sure to be blotted out by death, but sometimes I think it is not impossible that I may continue to live in some other manner after my physical death . Or, as Hamlet wonders, what dreams will come when we leave this body?
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I think most people are more important than their opinions.
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Perhaps the apparent favor of the universe is no more than the crocodile grin of a Doberman breathing hard and about to be hungry?
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Many of the characters are fools and they’re always playing tricks on me and treating me badly.
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A poet is a discoverer rather than an inventor.
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What a writer wants to do is not what he does.
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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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