Death is just infinity closing in.
JORGE LUIS BORGESThe future is as irrevocable as an inflexible yesterday.
More Jorge Luis Borges Quotes
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What I’m really concerned about is reaching one person. And that person may be myself for all I know.
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It means much to have loved, to have been happy, to have laid my hand on the living Garden, even for a day.
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The original is unfaithful to the translation.
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Poetry remembers that it was an oral art before it was a written art.
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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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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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When writers die they become books, which is, after all, not too bad an incarnation.
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My books standing there on the shelf do not know that I have written them.
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I think that the reader should enrich what he is reading. He should misunderstand the text; he should change it into something else.
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Happy are the beloved and the lovers and those who can live without love.
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I think most people are more important than their opinions.
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What you really value is what you miss, not what you have.
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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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The future has no other reality than as present hope, and the past is no more than present memory.
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The minotaur more than justifies the existence of the labyrinth.
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