Everything touches everything.
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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The flattery of posterity is not worth much more than contemporary flattery, which is worth nothing.
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When you come right down to it, opinions are the most superficial things about anyone.
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My undertaking is not difficult, essentially. I should only have to be immortal to carry it out.
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Reality is partial to symmetry and slight anachronisms
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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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To arrange a library is to practice in a quiet and modest way the art of criticism.
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Poets, like the blind, can see in the dark.
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Being with you and not being with you is the only way I have to measure time.
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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 am not sure that I exist, actually. I am all the writers that I have read, all the people that I have met, all the women that I have loved; all the cities I have visited.
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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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When writers die they become books, which is, after all, not too bad an incarnation.
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Thus my life is a flight and I lose everything and everything belongs to oblivion, or to him.
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If I were asked to name the chief event in my life, I should say my father’s library.
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One concept corrupts and confuses the others. I am not speaking of the Evil whose limited sphere is ethics; I am speaking of the infinite.
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