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.
JORGE LUIS BORGESI have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.
More Jorge Luis Borges Quotes
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The sea is an idiom I cannot decipher.
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Blindness has not been for me a total misfortune; it should not be seen in a pathetic way. It should be seen as a way of life: one of the styles of living.
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We accept reality so readily – perhaps because we sense that nothing is real.
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Reality favors symmetry.
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It’s a shame that we have to choose between two such second-rate countries as the USSR and the USA.
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What I’m really concerned about is reaching one person. And that person may be myself for all I know.
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I think that the reader should enrich what he is reading. He should misunderstand the text; he should change it into something else.
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The original is unfaithful to the translation.
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Poetry remembers that it was an oral art before it was a written art.
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In all fiction, when a man is faced with alternatives he chooses one at the expense of others.
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A man sets himself the task of portraying the world. Shortly before he dies he discovers that this patient labyrinth of lines is a drawing of his own face.
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The earth we inhabit is an error, an incompetent parody. Mirrors and paternity are abominable because they multiply and affirm it.
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Time, which despoils castles, enriches verses.
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Writing is nothing more than a guided dream.
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Israelites, Christians and Muslims profess immortality, but the veneration they render this world proves they believe only in it, since they destine all other worlds, in infinite number, to be its reward or punishment.
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