The mind was dreaming. The world was its dream.
JORGE LUIS BORGESI gazed at every mirror on the planet, not one gave back my reflection.
More Jorge Luis Borges Quotes
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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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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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Only in the present do things happen.
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To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.
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Nothing is built on stone; all is built on sand, but we must build as if the sand were stone.
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You have wakened not out of sleep, but into a prior dream, and that dream lies within another, and so on, to infinity, which is the number of grains of sand. The path that you are to take is endless, and you will die before you have truly awakened.
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I believe that in time we will have reached the point where we will deserve to be free of government.
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No 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.
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Reality is not always probable, or likely.
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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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The mightiest love was granted him Love that does not expect to be loved.
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The flattery of posterity is not worth much more than contemporary flattery, which is worth nothing.
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Films are even stranger, for what we are seeing are not disguised people but photographs of disguised people, and yet we believe them while the film is being shown.
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Each thing implies the universe.
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The tango is a direct expression of something that poets have often tried to state in words: the belief that a fight may be a celebration.
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