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.
JORGE LUIS BORGESPoets, like the blind, can see in the dark.
More Jorge Luis Borges Quotes
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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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Happy are the beloved and the lovers and those who can live without love.
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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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My books standing there on the shelf do not know that I have written them.
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Democracy is an abuse of statistics.
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When I wake up, I wake to something worse. It’s the astonishment of being myself.
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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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I gazed at every mirror on the planet, not one gave back my reflection.
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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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The future is as irrevocable as an inflexible yesterday.
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Do you want to see what human eyes have never seen? Look at the moon. Do you want to hear what ears have never heard? Listen to the bird’s cry. Do you want to touch what hands have never touched? Touch the earth. Verily I say that God is about to create the world.
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Loneliness does not worry me; life is difficult enough, putting up with yourself and with your own habits.
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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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What a writer wants to do is not what he does.
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No one is a poet from eight to twelve and from two to six. Whoever is a poet is one always, and continually assaulted by poetry.
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