He thought that the rose was to be found in its own eternity and not in his words; and that we may mention or allude to a thing, but not express it.
JORGE LUIS BORGESHe 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.
More Jorge Luis Borges Quotes
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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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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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So plant your own gardens and decorate your own soul, instead of waiting for someone to bring you flowers.
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I have preferred to teach my students not English literature but my love for certain authors, or, even better, certain pages, or even better than that, certain lines. One falls in love with a line, then with a page, then with an author. Well, why not? It is a beautiful process.
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The original is unfaithful to the translation.
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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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The minotaur more than justifies the existence of the labyrinth.
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In our dreams (writes Coleridge) images represent the sensations we think they cause; we do not feel horror because we are threatened by a sphinx; we dream of a sphinx in order to explain the horror we feel.
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Creativity is suspended between memory and forgetting.
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Reality is partial to symmetry and slight anachronisms
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The central fact of my life has been the existence of words and the possibility of weaving those words into poetry.
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Every man should be capable of all ideas.
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The Falklands thing was a fight between two bald men over a comb.
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It’s a shame that we have to choose between two such second-rate countries as the USSR and the USA.
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To die for a religion is easier than to live it absolutely.
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