Each thing implies the universe.
JORGE LUIS BORGESIt means much to have loved, to have been happy, to have laid my hand on the living Garden, even for a day.
More Jorge Luis Borges Quotes
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Thus my life is a flight and I lose everything and everything belongs to oblivion, or to him.
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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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I think of reading a book as no less an experience than travelling or falling in love.
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I ask of any God, of any gods, that if they give immortality, I hope to be granted oblivion also.
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Being with you and not being with you is the only way I have to measure time.
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The original is unfaithful to the translation.
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Doubt is one of the names of intelligence.
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The minotaur more than justifies the existence of the labyrinth.
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Truth never penetrates an unwilling mind.
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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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What a writer wants to do is not what he does.
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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.
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The word happiness exists in every language; it is plausible the thing itself exists.
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I foresee that man will resign himself each day to new abominations, and soon that only bandits and soldiers will be left.
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Beyond my anxiety, beyond this writing, the universe waits, inexhaustible, inviting.
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