The Falklands thing was a fight between two bald men over a comb.
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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Censorship is the mother of metaphor.
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He was very religious; he believed that he had a secret pact with God which exempted him from doing good in exchange for prayers and piety.
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A writer should have another lifetime to see if he’s appreciated.
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May Heaven exist, even if my place is Hell.
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We have stopped believing in progress. What progress that is !
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I walk slowly, like one who comes from so far away he doesn’t expect to arrive.
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If I were asked to name the chief event in my life, I should say my father’s library.
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The fact is that poetry is not the books in the library. Poetry is the encounter of the reader with the book, the discovery of the book.
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I have sometimes suspected that the only thing that holds no mystery is happiness, because it is its own justification.
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Everything touches everything.
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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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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.
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My undertaking is not difficult, essentially. I should only have to be immortal to carry it out.
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Do you want to see what human eyes have never seen? Look at the moon. Do you want to hear what ears have never heard? Listen to the bird’s cry. Do you want to touch what hands have never touched? Touch the earth. Verily I say that God is about to create the world.
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Man’s memory shapes Its own Eden within.
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