My books standing there on the shelf do not know that I have written them.
JORGE LUIS BORGESThe mightiest love was granted him Love that does not expect to be loved.
More Jorge Luis Borges Quotes
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We are our memory, we are that chimerical museum of shifting shapes, that pile of broken mirrors.
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The earth we inhabit is an error, an incompetent parody. Mirrors and paternity are abominable because they multiply and affirm it.
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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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Life itself is a quotation.
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You may win your heart’s desire, but in the end you’re cheated of it by death.
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Time forks perpetually toward innumerable futures.
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What you really value is what you miss, not what you have.
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Your unforgivable sins do not allow you to see my splendor.
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I think most people are more important than their opinions.
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Man’s memory shapes Its own Eden within.
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Another school declares that all time has already transpired and that our life is only the crepuscular and no doubt falsified and mutilated memory or reflection of an irrecoverable process.
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The flattery of posterity is not worth much more than contemporary flattery, which is worth nothing.
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I have preferred to teach my students not English literature but my love for certain authors, or, even better, certain pages, or even better than that, certain lines. One falls in love with a line, then with a page, then with an author. Well, why not? It is a beautiful process.
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Art is endless like a river flowing, passing, yet remaining.
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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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