I saw a sunset in Queretaro that seemed to reflect the color of a rose in Bengal.
JORGE LUIS BORGESYou can’t measure time by days, the way you measure money by dollars and cents, because dollars are all the same while every day is different and maybe every hour as well.
More Jorge Luis Borges Quotes
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Poets, like the blind, can see in the dark.
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When you reach my age, you realize you couldn’t have done things very much better or much worse than you did them in the first place.
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Art is very mysterious. I wonder if you can really do any damage to art. I think that when we’re writing, something comes through or should come through, in spite of our theories. So theories are not really important.
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For me, beauty is a physical sensation, something we feel with our whole body. It is not the result of judgement. We do not arrive at it by way of rules. We either feel beauty or we don’t.
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When one confesses to an act, one ceases to be an actor in it and becomes its witness, becomes a man that observes and narrates it and no longer the man that performed it.
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Time forks perpetually toward innumerable futures.
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Truth never penetrates an unwilling mind.
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I saw all the mirrors on earth and none of them reflected me.
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The tango is a direct expression of something that poets have often tried to state in words: the belief that a fight may be a celebration.
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When I wake up, I wake to something worse. It’s the astonishment of being myself.
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When I feel I’m going to write something, then I just am quiet and I try to listen. Then something comes through. And I do what I can in order not to tamper with it.
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I would rather like to think of God as being a kind of adventurer – even as Wells thought about him – or perhaps as something within us making for some unknown purpose.
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Doubt is one of the names of intelligence.
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You may win your heart’s desire, but in the end you’re cheated of it by death.
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Time is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire.
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