It means much to have loved, to have been happy, to have laid my hand on the living Garden, even for a day.
JORGE LUIS BORGESLife itself is a quotation.
More Jorge Luis Borges Quotes
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I had always thought of Paradise / In form and image as a library.
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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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In Spanish it is very difficult to make things flow, because words are over-long. But in English, you have light words.
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Democracy is an abuse of statistics.
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Reality is partial to symmetry and slight anachronisms
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We have stopped believing in progress. What progress that is !
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Whoever would undertake some atrocious enterprise should act as if it were already accomplished should impose upon himself a future as irrevocable as the past.
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Many of the characters are fools and they’re always playing tricks on me and treating me badly.
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The things that are said in literature are always the same. What is important is the way they are said.
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There’s no need to build a labyrinth when the entire universe is one.
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To die for a religion is easier than to live it absolutely.
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Life itself is a quotation.
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The minotaur more than justifies the existence of the labyrinth.
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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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He consorted with prostitutes and poets and with persons even worse.
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