Happy are the beloved and the lovers and those who can live without love.
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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Let others pride themselves about how many pages they have written; I’d rather boast about the ones I’ve read.
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I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.
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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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Each thing implies the universe.
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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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May Heaven exist, even if my place is Hell.
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I thought that a man can be an enemy of other men, of the moments of other men, but not of a country: not of fireflies, words, gardens, streams of water, sunsets.
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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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In adultery, there is usually tenderness and self-sacrifice; in murder, courage; in profanation and blasphemy, a certain satanic splendour. Judas elected those offences unvisited by any virtues: abuse of confidence and informing.
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Time is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire.
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I can give you my loneliness, my darkness, the hunger of my heart, I am trying to bribe you with uncertainty, with danger, with defeat.
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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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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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I saw all the mirrors on earth and none of them reflected me.
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Loneliness does not worry me; life is difficult enough, putting up with yourself and with your own habits.
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