Being with you and not being with you is the only way I have to measure time.
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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When I wake up, I wake to something worse. It’s the astonishment of being myself.
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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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Truth never penetrates an unwilling mind.
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In adultery, there is usually tenderness and self-sacrifice; in murder, courage; in profanation and blasphemy, a certain satanic splendour. Judas elected those offences unvisited by any virtues: abuse of confidence and informing.
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I can give you my loneliness, my darkness, the hunger of my heart, I am trying to bribe you with uncertainty, with danger, with defeat.
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Death is just infinity closing in.
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A poet is a discoverer rather than an inventor.
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Poetry remembers that it was an oral art before it was a written art.
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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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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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Time forks perpetually toward innumerable futures.
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Doubt is one of the names of intelligence.
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The mind was dreaming. The world was its dream.
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Then I reflect that all things happen, happen to one, precisely now. Century follows century, and things happen only in the present. There are countless men in the air, on land and at sea, and all that really happens happens to me.
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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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