He consorted with prostitutes and poets and with persons even worse.
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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There’s no need to build a labyrinth when the entire universe is one.
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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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A system is nothing more than the subordination of all aspects of the universe to any one of such aspects.
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Time can’t be measured in days the way money is measured in pesos and centavos, because all pesos are equal, while every day, perhaps every hour, is different.
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I can give you my loneliness, my darkness, the hunger of my heart, I am trying to bribe you with uncertainty, with danger, with defeat.
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I gazed at every mirror on the planet, not one gave back my reflection.
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In my next life I will try to commit more errors.
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For me, beauty is a physical sensation, something we feel with our whole body. It is not the result of judgement. We do not arrive at it by way of rules. We either feel beauty or we don’t.
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Censorship is the mother of metaphor.
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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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Creativity is suspended between memory and forgetting.
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It means much to have loved, to have been happy, to have laid my hand on the living Garden, even for a day.
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The future is inevitable and precise, but it may not occur. God lurks in the gaps.
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The mind was dreaming. The world was its dream.
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When one confesses to an act, one ceases to be an actor in it and becomes its witness, becomes a man that observes and narrates it and no longer the man that performed it.
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