I am not sure that I exist, actually. I am all the writers that I have read, all the people that I have met, all the women that I have loved; all the cities I have visited.
JORGE LUIS BORGESAnother 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.
More Jorge Luis Borges Quotes
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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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What you really value is what you miss, not what you have.
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To say good-bye is to deny separation; it is to say Today we play at going our own ways, but we’ll see each other tomorrow. Men invented farewells because they somehow knew themselves to be immortal, even while seeing themselves as contingent and ephemeral.
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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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Art is endless like a river flowing, passing, yet remaining.
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It also occurred to him that throughout history, humankind has told two stories: the story of a lost ship sailing the Mediterranean seas in quest of a beloved isle, and the story of a god who allows himself to be crucified on Golgotha.
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The things that are said in literature are always the same. What is important is the way they are said.
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When you reach my age, you realize you couldn’t have done things very much better or much worse than you did them in the first place.
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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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You may win your heart’s desire, but in the end you’re cheated of it by death.
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Personally, I am a hedonistic reader; I have never read a book merely because it was ancient. I read books for the aesthetic emotions they offer me, and I ignore the commentaries and criticism.
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Truth never penetrates an unwilling mind.
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It means much to have loved, to have been happy, to have laid my hand on the living Garden, even for a day.
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Time is the tiger that devours me, but I am that tiger.
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Heaven and hell seem out of proportion to me: the actions of men do not deserve so much.
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