The mind was dreaming. The world was its dream.
JORGE LUIS BORGESWhile we are asleep in this world, we are awake in another one.
More Jorge Luis Borges Quotes
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Death is just infinity closing in.
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To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.
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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.
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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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From my weakness, I drew strength that never left me.
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When I wake up, I wake to something worse. It’s the astonishment of being myself.
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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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While we are asleep in this world, we are awake in another one.
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Beyond my anxiety, beyond this writing, the universe waits, inexhaustible, inviting.
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Let others pride themselves about how many pages they have written; I’d rather boast about the ones I’ve read.
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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.
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All that happens to us, including our humiliations, our misfortunes, our embarrassments, all is given to us as raw material, as clay, so that we may shape our art.
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Your unforgivable sins do not allow you to see my splendor.
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Reality is not always probable, or likely.
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When you reach my age, you realize you couldn’t have done things very much better or much worse than you did them in the first place.
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