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 BORGESI ask of any God, of any gods, that if they give immortality, I hope to be granted oblivion also.
More Jorge Luis Borges Quotes
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He consorted with prostitutes and poets and with persons even worse.
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You may win your heart’s desire, but in the end you’re cheated of it by death.
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He thought that the rose was to be found in its own eternity and not in his words; and that we may mention or allude to a thing, but not express it.
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The possibilities of the art of combination are not infinite, but they tend to be frightful.
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So plant your own gardens and decorate your own soul, instead of waiting for someone to bring you flowers.
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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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Time is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire.
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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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The future is inevitable and precise, but it may not occur. God lurks in the gaps.
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My books standing there on the shelf do not know that I have written them.
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The mightiest love was granted him Love that does not expect to be loved.
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I saw a sunset in Queretaro that seemed to reflect the color of a rose in Bengal.
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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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When one confesses to an act, one ceases to be an actor in it and becomes its witness, becomes a man that observes and narrates it and no longer the man that performed it.
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Each thing implies the universe.
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