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.
JORGE LUIS BORGESHow can we manage to illuminate the pathos of our lives?
More Jorge Luis Borges Quotes
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Reality is not always probable, or likely.
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May Heaven exist, even if my place is Hell.
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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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A system is nothing more than the subordination of all aspects of the universe to any one of such aspects.
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I suppose identity depends on memory. And if my memory is blotted out, then I wonder if I exist – I mean, if I am the same person. Of course, I don’t have to solve that problem. It’s up to God, if any.
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Then I reflect that all things happen, happen to one, precisely now. Century follows century, and things happen only in the present. There are countless men in the air, on land and at sea, and all that really happens happens to me.
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What I’m really concerned about is reaching one person. And that person may be myself for all I know.
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I cannot walk through the suburbs in the solitude of the night without thinking that the night pleases us because it suppresses idle details, just as our memory does.
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I cannot sleep unless I am surrounded by books.
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The tango is a direct expression of something that poets have often tried to state in words: the belief that a fight may be a celebration.
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My books standing there on the shelf do not know that I have written them.
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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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I never reread what I’ve written. I’m far too afraid to feel ashamed of what I’ve done.
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Time is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire.
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Truth never penetrates an unwilling mind.
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