Each thing implies the universe.

JORGE LUIS BORGES

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Each thing implies the universe.

Jorge Luis Borges

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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.

JORGE LUIS BORGES

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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Known Way
I might accept immortality, if I had to do it. But I would prefer – if there is any afterlife – to know nothing whatever about Borges, about his experiences in this world.

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I might accept immortality, if I had to do it. But I would prefer – if there is any afterlife – to know nothing whatever about Borges, about his experiences in this world.
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My undertaking is not difficult, essentially. I should only have to be immortal to carry it out.

JORGE LUIS BORGES

My undertaking is not difficult, essentially. I should only have to be immortal to carry it out.
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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.

JORGE LUIS BORGES

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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Image Replacement
Time, which despoils castles, enriches verses.

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Time, which despoils castles, enriches verses.
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I have preferred to teach my students not English literature but my love for certain authors, or, even better, certain pages, or even better than that, certain lines. One falls in love with a line, then with a page, then with an author. Well, why not? It is a beautiful process.

JORGE LUIS BORGES

I have preferred to teach my students not English literature but my love for certain authors, or, even better, certain pages, or even better than that, certain lines. One falls in love with a line, then with a page, then with an author. Well, why not? It is a beautiful process.
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Fall In Love Preference
What I’m really concerned about is reaching one person. And that person may be myself for all I know.

JORGE LUIS BORGES

What I’m really concerned about is reaching one person. And that person may be myself for all I know.
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Known
The possibilities of the art of combination are not infinite, but they tend to be frightful.

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The possibilities of the art of combination are not infinite, but they tend to be frightful.
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Infinite
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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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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Visit
I never reread what I’ve written. I’m far too afraid to feel ashamed of what I’ve done.

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I never reread what I’ve written. I’m far too afraid to feel ashamed of what I’ve done.
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I cannot sleep unless I am surrounded by books.

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I cannot sleep unless I am surrounded by books.
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The future is as irrevocable as an inflexible yesterday.

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The future is as irrevocable as an inflexible yesterday.
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The minotaur more than justifies the existence of the labyrinth.
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Justify
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.

JORGE LUIS BORGES

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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Expression Intimate
The word happiness exists in every language; it is plausible the thing itself exists.

JORGE LUIS BORGES

The word happiness exists in every language; it is plausible the thing itself exists.
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Word
Truth never penetrates an unwilling mind.

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Truth never penetrates an unwilling mind.
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Mindset Willing

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