Thus my life is a flight and I lose everything and everything belongs to oblivion, or to him.
JORGE LUIS BORGESTime, which despoils castles, enriches verses.
More Jorge Luis Borges Quotes
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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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The future is as irrevocable as an inflexible yesterday.
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Poetry remembers that it was an oral art before it was a written art.
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Art is endless like a river flowing, passing, yet remaining.
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Time is the substance from which I am made. Time is a river which carries me along, but I am the river; it is a tiger that devours me, but I am the tiger; it is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire.
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May Heaven exist, even if my place is Hell.
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Each thing implies the universe.
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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 always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.
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The Falklands thing was a fight between two bald men over a comb.
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I have always come to life after coming to books.
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Democracy is an abuse of statistics.
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The future is inevitable and precise, but it may not occur. God lurks in the gaps.
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The mightiest love was granted him Love that does not expect to be loved.
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The earth we inhabit is an error, an incompetent parody. Mirrors and paternity are abominable because they multiply and affirm it.
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