The minotaur more than justifies the existence of the labyrinth.
JORGE LUIS BORGESThere 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.
More Jorge Luis Borges Quotes
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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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If space is infinite, we may be at any point in space. If time is infinite, we may be at any point in time.
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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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Then I reflect that all things happen, happen to one, precisely now. Century follows century, and things happen only in the present. There are countless men in the air, on land and at sea, and all that really happens happens to me.
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I walk slowly, like one who comes from so far away he doesn’t expect to arrive.
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In general, every country has the language it deserves.
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If I were asked to name the chief event in my life, I should say my father’s library.
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Happy are the beloved and the lovers and those who can live without love.
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What will die with me when I die, what pathetic or fragile form will the world lose?
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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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For me, beauty is a physical sensation, something we feel with our whole body. It is not the result of judgement. We do not arrive at it by way of rules. We either feel beauty or we don’t.
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Your unforgivable sins do not allow you to see my splendor.
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The man who acquires an encyclopedia does not thereby acquire every line, every paragraph, every page, and every illustration; he acquires the possibility of becoming familiar with one and another of those things.
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I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.
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A writer’s work is the product of laziness.
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