When writers die they become books, which is, after all, not too bad an incarnation.
JORGE LUIS BORGESDeath is just infinity closing in.
More Jorge Luis Borges Quotes
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You have wakened not out of sleep, but into a prior dream, and that dream lies within another, and so on, to infinity, which is the number of grains of sand. The path that you are to take is endless, and you will die before you have truly awakened.
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I saw a sunset in Queretaro that seemed to reflect the color of a rose in Bengal.
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Death is just infinity closing in.
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The mind was dreaming. The world was its dream.
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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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We forget that we are all dead men conversing with dead men.
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There is nothing in the world that is not mysterious, but the mystery is more evident in certain things than in others: in the sea, in the eyes of the elders, in the color yellow, and in music.
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The worst labyrinth is not that intricate form that can entrap us forever, but a single and precise straight line.
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Perhaps the apparent favor of the universe is no more than the crocodile grin of a Doberman breathing hard and about to be hungry?
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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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Many of the characters are fools and they’re always playing tricks on me and treating me badly.
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Any life, however long and complicated it may be, actually consists of a single moment — the moment when a man knows forever more who he is.
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The heresies we should fear are those which can be confused with orthodoxy.
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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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The sea is an idiom I cannot decipher.
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