There is an hour of the afternoon when the plain is on the verge of saying something. It never says, or perhaps it says it infinitely, or perhaps we do not understand it, or we understand it and it is untranslatable as music.
JORGE LUIS BORGESWhen you come right down to it, opinions are the most superficial things about anyone.
More Jorge Luis Borges Quotes
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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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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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When writers die they become books, which is, after all, not too bad an incarnation.
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I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.
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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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To be immortal is commonplace; except for man, all creatures are immortal, for they are ignorant of death; what is divine, terrible, incomprehensible, is to know that one is immortal.
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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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You can’t measure time by days, the way you measure money by dollars and cents, because dollars are all the same while every day is different and maybe every hour as well.
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Heaven and hell seem out of proportion to me: the actions of men do not deserve so much.
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We have a very precise image – an image at times shameless – of what we have lost, but we are ignorant of what may follow or replace it.
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Life itself is a quotation.
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Beyond my anxiety, beyond this writing, the universe waits, inexhaustible, inviting.
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Death is just infinity closing in.
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Chang Tzu tells us of a persevering man who after three laborious years mastered the art of dragon-slaying. For the rest of his days, he had not a single opportunity to test his skills.
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Time forks perpetually toward innumerable futures.
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