You have wakened not out of sleep, but into a prior dream, and that dream lies within another, and so on, to infinity, which is the number of grains of sand. The path that you are to take is endless, and you will die before you have truly awakened.
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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Truth never penetrates an unwilling mind.
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I never reread what I’ve written. I’m far too afraid to feel ashamed of what I’ve done.
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A book is not an isolated being: it is a relationship, an axis of innumerable relationships
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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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I gazed at every mirror on the planet, not one gave back my reflection.
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A writer – and, I believe, generally all persons – must think that whatever happens to him or her is a resource.
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Reality favors symmetry.
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I think that the reader should enrich what he is reading. He should misunderstand the text; he should change it into something else.
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The minotaur more than justifies the existence of the labyrinth.
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No one is a poet from eight to twelve and from two to six. Whoever is a poet is one always, and continually assaulted by poetry.
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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.
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The original is unfaithful to the translation.
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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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I would rather like to think of God as being a kind of adventurer – even as Wells thought about him – or perhaps as something within us making for some unknown purpose.
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I have sometimes suspected that the only thing that holds no mystery is happiness, because it is its own justification.
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