I thought that a man can be an enemy of other men, of the moments of other men, but not of a country: not of fireflies, words, gardens, streams of water, sunsets.
JORGE LUIS BORGESNo 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.
More Jorge Luis Borges Quotes
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Soccer is popular because stupidity is popular.
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Beyond my anxiety, beyond this writing, the universe waits, inexhaustible, inviting.
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To arrange a library is to practice in a quiet and modest way the art of criticism.
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We have a very precise image – an image at times shameless – of what we have lost, but we are ignorant of what may follow or replace it.
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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 gazed at every mirror on the planet, not one gave back my reflection.
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Happy are the beloved and the lovers and those who can live without love.
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The mightiest love was granted him Love that does not expect to be loved.
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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 always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.
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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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While we are asleep in this world, we are awake in another one.
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Many of the characters are fools and they’re always playing tricks on me and treating me badly.
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I saw all the mirrors on earth and none of them reflected me.
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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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