Being with you and not being with you is the only way I have to measure time.
JORGE LUIS BORGESIn general, every country has the language it deserves.
More Jorge Luis Borges Quotes
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He consorted with prostitutes and poets and with persons even worse.
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I walk slowly, like one who comes from so far away he doesn’t expect to arrive.
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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.
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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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When I wake up, I wake to something worse. It’s the astonishment of being myself.
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May Heaven exist, even if my place is Hell.
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The flattery of posterity is not worth much more than contemporary flattery, which is worth nothing.
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Time forks perpetually toward innumerable futures.
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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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We have a very precise image – an image at times shameless – of what we have lost, but we are ignorant of what may follow or replace it.
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He was very religious; he believed that he had a secret pact with God which exempted him from doing good in exchange for prayers and piety.
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While we are asleep in this world, we are awake in another one.
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Reality is partial to symmetry and slight anachronisms
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The minotaur more than justifies the existence of the labyrinth.
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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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