My books standing there on the shelf do not know that I have written them.
JORGE LUIS BORGESMan’s memory shapes Its own Eden within.
More Jorge Luis Borges Quotes
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We are our memory, we are that chimerical museum of shifting shapes, that pile of broken mirrors.
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How can we manage to illuminate the pathos of our lives?
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When I wake up, I wake to something worse. It’s the astonishment of being myself.
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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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The original is unfaithful to the translation.
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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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Creativity is suspended between memory and forgetting.
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To say good-bye is to deny separation; it is to say Today we play at going our own ways, but we’ll see each other tomorrow. Men invented farewells because they somehow knew themselves to be immortal, even while seeing themselves as contingent and ephemeral.
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I foresee that man will resign himself each day to new abominations, and soon that only bandits and soldiers will be left.
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I am not sure of anything, I know nothing. Can you imagine that I don’t even know the date of my own death?
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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 writers die they become books, which is, after all, not too bad an incarnation.
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Life itself is a quotation.
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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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There’s no need to build a labyrinth when the entire universe is one.
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