The future is inevitable and precise, but it may not occur. God lurks in the gaps.
JORGE LUIS BORGESHow can we manage to illuminate the pathos of our lives?
More Jorge Luis Borges Quotes
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Time can’t be measured in days the way money is measured in pesos and centavos, because all pesos are equal, while every day, perhaps every hour, is different.
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I believe that in time we will have reached the point where we will deserve to be free of government.
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I think most people are more important than their opinions.
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The Falklands thing was a fight between two bald men over a comb.
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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.
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To arrange a library is to practice in a quiet and modest way the art of criticism.
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Every novel is an ideal plane inserted into the realm of reality.
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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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A writer should have another lifetime to see if he’s appreciated.
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I thought that a man can be an enemy of other men, of the moments of other men, but not of a country: not of fireflies, words, gardens, streams of water, sunsets.
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Your unforgivable sins do not allow you to see my splendor.
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Blindness has not been for me a total misfortune; it should not be seen in a pathetic way. It should be seen as a way of life: one of the styles of living.
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Censorship is the mother of metaphor.
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Reality is partial to symmetry and slight anachronisms
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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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