Time is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire.
JORGE LUIS BORGESI have always come to life after coming to books.
More Jorge Luis Borges Quotes
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Writing is nothing more than a guided dream.
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You can’t measure time by days, the way you measure money by dollars and cents, because dollars are all the same while every day is different and maybe every hour as well.
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Reality may avoid the obligation to be interesting, but hypotheses may not.
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We accept reality so readily – perhaps because we sense that nothing is real.
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Being an agnostic means all things are possible, even God, even the Holy Trinity. This world is so strange that anything may happen, or may not happen. Being an agnostic makes me live in a larger, a more fantastic kind of world, almost uncanny. It makes me more tolerant.
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The tango is a direct expression of something that poets have often tried to state in words: the belief that a fight may be a celebration.
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Poets, like the blind, can see in the dark.
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Every man should be capable of all ideas.
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I am not sure that I exist, actually. I am all the writers that I have read, all the people that I have met, all the women that I have loved; all the cities I have visited.
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There is nothing in the world that is not mysterious, but the mystery is more evident in certain things than in others: in the sea, in the eyes of the elders, in the color yellow, and in music.
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When you come right down to it, opinions are the most superficial things about anyone.
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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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I have committed the worst of sins one can commit. I have not been happy.
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The possibilities of the art of combination are not infinite, but they tend to be frightful.
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It’s a shame that we have to choose between two such second-rate countries as the USSR and the USA.
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