My undertaking is not difficult, essentially. I should only have to be immortal to carry it out.
JORGE LUIS BORGESLoneliness does not worry me; life is difficult enough, putting up with yourself and with your own habits.
More Jorge Luis Borges Quotes
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In general, every country has the language it deserves.
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I can give you my loneliness, my darkness, the hunger of my heart, I am trying to bribe you with uncertainty, with danger, with defeat.
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The mightiest love was granted him Love that does not expect to be loved.
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Any 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.
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He consorted with prostitutes and poets and with persons even worse.
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The fact is that poetry is not the books in the library. Poetry is the encounter of the reader with the book, the discovery of the book.
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I am not sure of anything, I know nothing. Can you imagine that I don’t even know the date of my own 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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A poet is a discoverer rather than an inventor.
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We have stopped believing in progress. What progress that is !
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Everything touches everything.
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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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When I write, I do it urged by an intimate necessity. I don’t have in mind an exclusive public, or a public of multitudes, I don’t think in either thing. I think about expressing what I want to say. I try to do it in the simplest way possible.
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Films are even stranger, for what we are seeing are not disguised people but photographs of disguised people, and yet we believe them while the film is being shown.
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Death is just infinity closing in.
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