The mightiest love was granted him Love that does not expect to be loved.
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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Don’t talk unless you can improve the silence.
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Israelites, Christians and Muslims profess immortality, but the veneration they render this world proves they believe only in it, since they destine all other worlds, in infinite number, to be its reward or punishment.
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Whoever would undertake some atrocious enterprise should act as if it were already accomplished should impose upon himself a future as irrevocable as the past.
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Reality may avoid the obligation to be interesting, but hypotheses may not.
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The mind was dreaming. The world was its dream.
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I saw all the mirrors on earth and none of them reflected me.
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How can we manage to illuminate the pathos of our lives?
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A writer’s work is the product of laziness.
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The possibilities of the art of combination are not infinite, but they tend to be frightful.
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I cannot walk through the suburbs in the solitude of the night without thinking that the night pleases us because it suppresses idle details, just as our memory does.
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The minotaur more than justifies the existence of the labyrinth.
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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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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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The future has no other reality than as present hope, and the past is no more than present memory.
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It is clear that there is no classification of the Universe that is not arbitrary and full of conjectures. The reason for this is very simple: we do not know what kind of thing the universe is.
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