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.
JORGE LUIS BORGESSo plant your own gardens and decorate your own soul, instead of waiting for someone to bring you flowers.
More Jorge Luis Borges Quotes
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I had always thought of Paradise / In form and image as a library.
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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.
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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 future has no other reality than as present hope, and the past is no more than present memory.
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The sea is an idiom I cannot decipher.
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Everything touches everything.
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Only in the present do things happen.
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Truth never penetrates an unwilling mind.
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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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The future is as irrevocable as an inflexible yesterday.
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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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Life itself is a quotation.
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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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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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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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