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.
JORGE LUIS BORGESThe visible universe was an illusion or, more precisely, a sophism. Mirrors and fatherhood are abominable because they multiply it and extend it.
More Jorge Luis Borges Quotes
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I ask of any God, of any gods, that if they give immortality, I hope to be granted oblivion also.
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We are our memory, we are that chimerical museum of shifting shapes, that pile of broken mirrors.
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A poet is a discoverer rather than an inventor.
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Life itself is a quotation.
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I gazed at every mirror on the planet, not one gave back my reflection.
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Reality may avoid the obligation to be interesting, but hypotheses may not.
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To be immortal is commonplace; except for man, all creatures are immortal, for they are ignorant of death; what is divine, terrible, incomprehensible, is to know that one is immortal.
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The Falklands thing was a fight between two bald men over a comb.
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I saw all the mirrors on earth and none of them reflected me.
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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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Beyond my anxiety, beyond this writing, the universe waits, inexhaustible, inviting.
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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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To die for a religion is easier than to live it absolutely.
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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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The original is unfaithful to the translation.
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