Man’s memory shapes Its own Eden within.
JORGE LUIS BORGESPoets, like the blind, can see in the dark.
More Jorge Luis Borges Quotes
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Nothing is built on stone; all is built on sand, but we must build as if the sand were stone.
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I am not sure of anything, I know nothing. Can you imagine that I don’t even know the date of my own death?
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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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When you come right down to it, opinions are the most superficial things about anyone.
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We have a very precise image – an image at times shameless – of what we have lost, but we are ignorant of what may follow or replace it.
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Don’t talk unless you can improve the silence.
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In my next life I will try to commit more errors.
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Death is just infinity closing in.
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Beyond my anxiety, beyond this writing, the universe waits, inexhaustible, inviting.
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Let others pride themselves about how many pages they have written; I’d rather boast about the ones I’ve read.
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May Heaven exist, even if my place is Hell.
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Heaven and hell seem out of proportion to me: the actions of men do not deserve so much.
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We accept reality so readily – perhaps because we sense that nothing is real.
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I have sometimes suspected that the only thing that holds no mystery is happiness, because it is its own justification.
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Reality favors symmetry.
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