He consorted with prostitutes and poets and with persons even worse.
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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I saw a sunset in Queretaro that seemed to reflect the color of a rose in Bengal.
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Every man should be capable of all ideas.
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May Heaven exist, even if my place is Hell.
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A writer’s work is the product of laziness.
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I would rather like to think of God as being a kind of adventurer – even as Wells thought about him – or perhaps as something within us making for some unknown purpose.
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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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Beyond my anxiety, beyond this writing, the universe waits, inexhaustible, inviting.
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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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There’s no need to build a labyrinth when the entire universe is one.
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The dictionary is based on the hypothesis — obviously an unproven one — that languages are made up of equivalent synonyms.
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Reality is not always probable, or likely.
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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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A book is not an isolated being: it is a relationship, an axis of innumerable relationships
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Poets, like the blind, can see in the dark.
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Writing is nothing more than a guided dream.
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