There is an hour of the afternoon when the plain is on the verge of saying something. It never says, or perhaps it says it infinitely, or perhaps we do not understand it, or we understand it and it is untranslatable as music.
JORGE LUIS BORGESIt 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.
More Jorge Luis Borges Quotes
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I saw a sunset in Queretaro that seemed to reflect the color of a rose in Bengal.
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To die for a religion is easier than to live it absolutely.
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A writer needs loneliness, and he gets his share of it. He needs love, and he gets shared and also unshared love. He needs friendship. In fact, he needs the universe. To be a writer is, in a sense, to be a day-dreamer – to be living a kind of double life.
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Time forks perpetually toward innumerable futures.
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May Heaven exist, even if my place is Hell.
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For me, beauty is a physical sensation, something we feel with our whole body. It is not the result of judgement. We do not arrive at it by way of rules. We either feel beauty or we don’t.
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I think that the reader should enrich what he is reading. He should misunderstand the text; he should change it into something else.
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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 cannot walk through the suburbs in the solitude of the night without thinking that the night pleases us because it suppresses idle details, just as our memory does.
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I ask of any God, of any gods, that if they give immortality, I hope to be granted oblivion also.
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He thought that the rose was to be found in its own eternity and not in his words; and that we may mention or allude to a thing, but not express it.
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In my next life I will try to commit more errors.
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Heaven and hell seem out of proportion to me: the actions of men do not deserve so much.
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The future is inevitable and precise, but it may not occur. God lurks in the gaps.
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A book is not an isolated being: it is a relationship, an axis of innumerable relationships
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