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.
JORGE LUIS BORGESThe things that are said in literature are always the same. What is important is the way they are said.
More Jorge Luis Borges Quotes
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Happy are the beloved and the lovers and those who can live without love.
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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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The truth is that we live out our lives putting off all that can be put off; perhaps we all know deep down that we are immortal and that sooner or later all men will do and know all things.
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Poetry remembers that it was an oral art before it was a written art.
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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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To die for a religion is easier than to live it absolutely.
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No one is a poet from eight to twelve and from two to six. Whoever is a poet is one always, and continually assaulted by poetry.
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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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Let others pride themselves about how many pages they have written; I’d rather boast about the ones I’ve read.
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Blindness has not been for me a total misfortune; it should not be seen in a pathetic way. It should be seen as a way of life: one of the styles of living.
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Soccer is popular because stupidity is popular.
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You have wakened not out of sleep, but into a prior dream, and that dream lies within another, and so on, to infinity, which is the number of grains of sand. The path that you are to take is endless, and you will die before you have truly awakened.
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What you really value is what you miss, not what you have.
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Only in the present do things happen.
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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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