Thus my life is a flight and I lose everything and everything belongs to oblivion, or to him.
JORGE LUIS BORGESIsraelites, 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.
More Jorge Luis Borges Quotes
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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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Time can’t be measured in days the way money is measured in pesos and centavos, because all pesos are equal, while every day, perhaps every hour, is different.
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From my weakness, I drew strength that never left me.
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You can’t measure time by days, the way you measure money by dollars and cents, because dollars are all the same while every day is different and maybe every hour as well.
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When I write, I do it urged by an intimate necessity. I don’t have in mind an exclusive public, or a public of multitudes, I don’t think in either thing. I think about expressing what I want to say. I try to do it in the simplest way possible.
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I think most people are more important than their opinions.
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The possibilities of the art of combination are not infinite, but they tend to be frightful.
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Writing is nothing more than a guided dream.
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In general, every country has the language it deserves.
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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.
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Reality may avoid the obligation to be interesting, but hypotheses may not.
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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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He consorted with prostitutes and poets and with persons even worse.
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Don’t talk unless you can improve the silence.
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