My books standing there on the shelf do not know that I have written them.
JORGE LUIS BORGESIn general, every country has the language it deserves.
More Jorge Luis Borges Quotes
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I foresee that man will resign himself each day to new abominations, and soon that only bandits and soldiers will be left.
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To say good-bye is to deny separation; it is to say Today we play at going our own ways, but we’ll see each other tomorrow. Men invented farewells because they somehow knew themselves to be immortal, even while seeing themselves as contingent and ephemeral.
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If I were asked to name the chief event in my life, I should say my father’s library.
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May Heaven exist, even if my place is Hell.
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The mind was dreaming. The world was its dream.
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When writers die they become books, which is, after all, not too bad an incarnation.
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The word happiness exists in every language; it is plausible the thing itself exists.
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We have stopped believing in progress. What progress that is !
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From my weakness, I drew strength that never left me.
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We forget that we are all dead men conversing with dead men.
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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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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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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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I might accept immortality, if I had to do it. But I would prefer – if there is any afterlife – to know nothing whatever about Borges, about his experiences in this world.
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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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