You may win your heart’s desire, but in the end you’re cheated of it by death.
JORGE LUIS BORGESAny 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.
More Jorge Luis Borges Quotes
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Reality may avoid the obligation to be interesting, but hypotheses may not.
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Everything touches everything.
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The minotaur more than justifies the existence of the labyrinth.
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Happy are the beloved and the lovers and those who can live without love.
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It’s a shame that we have to choose between two such second-rate countries as the USSR and the USA.
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Every man should be capable of all ideas.
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Art is endless like a river flowing, passing, yet remaining.
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Don’t talk unless you can improve the silence.
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Truth never penetrates an unwilling mind.
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My undertaking is not difficult, essentially. I should only have to be immortal to carry it out.
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Man’s memory shapes Its own Eden within.
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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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It means much to have loved, to have been happy, to have laid my hand on the living Garden, even for a day.
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Do you want to see what human eyes have never seen? Look at the moon. Do you want to hear what ears have never heard? Listen to the bird’s cry. Do you want to touch what hands have never touched? Touch the earth. Verily I say that God is about to create the world.
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