Every novel is an ideal plane inserted into the realm of reality.
JORGE LUIS BORGESBlindness 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.
More Jorge Luis Borges Quotes
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Happy are the beloved and the lovers and those who can live without love.
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Time is the substance from which I am made. Time is a river which carries me along, but I am the river; it is a tiger that devours me, but I am the tiger; it is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire.
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Another school declares that all time has already transpired and that our life is only the crepuscular and no doubt falsified and mutilated memory or reflection of an irrecoverable process.
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To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.
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What will die with me when I die, what pathetic or fragile form will the world lose?
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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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To die for a religion is easier than to live it absolutely.
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Each thing implies the universe.
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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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In Spanish it is very difficult to make things flow, because words are over-long. But in English, you have light words.
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The original is unfaithful to the translation.
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Life itself is a quotation.
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In my next life I will try to commit more errors.
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Beyond my anxiety, beyond this writing, the universe waits, inexhaustible, inviting.
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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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