There is nothing in the world that is not mysterious, but the mystery is more evident in certain things than in others: in the sea, in the eyes of the elders, in the color yellow, and in music.
JORGE LUIS BORGESFrom my weakness, I drew strength that never left me.
More Jorge Luis Borges Quotes
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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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Only in the present do things happen.
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From my weakness, I drew strength that never left me.
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Time is the tiger that devours me, but I am that tiger.
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The future is inevitable and precise, but it may not occur. God lurks in the gaps.
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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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Soccer is popular because stupidity is popular.
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Time, which despoils castles, enriches verses.
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Death is just infinity closing in.
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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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Reality is partial to symmetry and slight anachronisms
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Reality may avoid the obligation to be interesting, but hypotheses may not.
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If space is infinite, we may be at any point in space. If time is infinite, we may be at any point in time.
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Films are even stranger, for what we are seeing are not disguised people but photographs of disguised people, and yet we believe them while the film is being shown.
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A poet is a discoverer rather than an inventor.
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