What will die with me when I die, what pathetic or fragile form will the world lose?
JORGE LUIS BORGESIn general, every country has the language it deserves.
More Jorge Luis Borges Quotes
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I gazed at every mirror on the planet, not one gave back my reflection.
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The worst labyrinth is not that intricate form that can entrap us forever, but a single and precise straight line.
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In all fiction, when a man is faced with alternatives he chooses one at the expense of others.
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In my next life I will try to commit more errors.
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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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The minotaur more than justifies the existence of the labyrinth.
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Life itself is a quotation.
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A poet is a discoverer rather than an inventor.
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The fact is that poetry is not the books in the library. Poetry is the encounter of the reader with the book, the discovery of the book.
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The original is unfaithful to the translation.
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I think of reading a book as no less an experience than travelling or falling in love.
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I thought that a man can be an enemy of other men, of the moments of other men, but not of a country: not of fireflies, words, gardens, streams of water, sunsets.
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Reality may avoid the obligation to be interesting, but hypotheses may not.
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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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Blindness 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.
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