I have always come to life after coming to books.
JORGE LUIS BORGESThere’s no need to build a labyrinth when the entire universe is one.
More Jorge Luis Borges Quotes
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There is an hour of the afternoon when the plain is on the verge of saying something. It never says, or perhaps it says it infinitely, or perhaps we do not understand it, or we understand it and it is untranslatable as music.
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Chang Tzu tells us of a persevering man who after three laborious years mastered the art of dragon-slaying. For the rest of his days, he had not a single opportunity to test his skills.
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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 may win your heart’s desire, but in the end you’re cheated of it by death.
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Heaven and hell seem out of proportion to me: the actions of men do not deserve so much.
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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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A poet is a discoverer rather than an inventor.
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A system is nothing more than the subordination of all aspects of the universe to any one of such aspects.
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Loneliness does not worry me; life is difficult enough, putting up with yourself and with your own habits.
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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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Writing is nothing more than a guided dream.
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If space is infinite, we may be at any point in space. If time is infinite, we may be at any point in time.
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Each thing implies the universe.
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The minotaur more than justifies the existence of the labyrinth.
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I am almost sure to be blotted out by death, but sometimes I think it is not impossible that I may continue to live in some other manner after my physical death . Or, as Hamlet wonders, what dreams will come when we leave this body?
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