Everything touches everything.
JORGE LUIS BORGESTo 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.
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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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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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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Poets, like the blind, can see in the dark.
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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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Any life, however long and complicated it may be, actually consists of a single moment — the moment when a man knows forever more who he is.
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I am not sure of anything, I know nothing. Can you imagine that I don’t even know the date of my own death?
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Art is very mysterious. I wonder if you can really do any damage to art. I think that when we’re writing, something comes through or should come through, in spite of our theories. So theories are not really important.
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Many of the characters are fools and they’re always playing tricks on me and treating me badly.
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The sea is an idiom I cannot decipher.
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A book is not an isolated being: it is a relationship, an axis of innumerable relationships
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I do not write for a select minority, which means nothing to me, nor for that adulated platonic entity known as ‘The Masses’. Both abstractions, so dear to the demagogue, I disbelieve in. I write for myself and for my friends, and I write to ease the passing of time.
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Democracy is an abuse of statistics.
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Happy are the beloved and the lovers and those who can live without love.
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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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