The future is inevitable and precise, but it may not occur. God lurks in the gaps.
JORGE LUIS BORGESEvery novel is an ideal plane inserted into the realm of reality.
More Jorge Luis Borges Quotes
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I cannot sleep unless I am surrounded by books.
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Beyond my anxiety, beyond this writing, the universe waits, inexhaustible, inviting.
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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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The things that are said in literature are always the same. What is important is the way they are said.
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The visible universe was an illusion or, more precisely, a sophism. Mirrors and fatherhood are abominable because they multiply it and extend it.
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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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What you really value is what you miss, not what you have.
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He consorted with prostitutes and poets and with persons even worse.
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A poet is a discoverer rather than an inventor.
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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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The central fact of my life has been the existence of words and the possibility of weaving those words into poetry.
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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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A writer should have another lifetime to see if he’s appreciated.
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Death is just infinity closing in.
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In general, every country has the language it deserves.
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