It means much to have loved, to have been happy, to have laid my hand on the living Garden, even for a day.
JORGE LUIS BORGESI cannot walk through the suburbs in the solitude of the night without thinking that the night pleases us because it suppresses idle details, just as our memory does.
More Jorge Luis Borges Quotes
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If space is infinite, we may be at any point in space. If time is infinite, we may be at any point in time.
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I suppose identity depends on memory. And if my memory is blotted out, then I wonder if I exist – I mean, if I am the same person. Of course, I don’t have to solve that problem. It’s up to God, if any.
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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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I have committed the worst of sins one can commit. I have not been happy.
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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.
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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 possibilities of the art of combination are not infinite, but they tend to be frightful.
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Your unforgivable sins do not allow you to see my splendor.
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To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.
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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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Art is endless like a river flowing, passing, yet remaining.
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While we are asleep in this world, we are awake in another one.
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I think of reading a book as no less an experience than travelling or falling in love.
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The future is inevitable and precise, but it may not occur. God lurks in the gaps.
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In my next life I will try to commit more errors.
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