From my weakness, I drew strength that never left me.
JORGE LUIS BORGES
You 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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From my weakness, I drew strength that never left me.
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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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May Heaven exist, even if my place is Hell.
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Time can’t be measured in days the way money is measured in pesos and centavos, because all pesos are equal, while every day, perhaps every hour, is different.
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I have sometimes suspected that the only thing that holds no mystery is happiness, because it is its own justification.
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Beyond my anxiety, beyond this writing, the universe waits, inexhaustible, inviting.
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Don’t talk unless you can improve the silence.
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While we are asleep in this world, we are awake in another one.
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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.
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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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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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Truth never penetrates an unwilling mind.
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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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Time is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire.
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So plant your own gardens and decorate your own soul, instead of waiting for someone to bring you flowers.
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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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