To say good-bye is to deny separation; it is to say Today we play at going our own ways, but we’ll see each other tomorrow. Men invented farewells because they somehow knew themselves to be immortal, even while seeing themselves as contingent and ephemeral.
JORGE LUIS BORGESThe sea is an idiom I cannot decipher.
More Jorge Luis Borges Quotes
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Each thing implies the universe.
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Time is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire.
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What will die with me when I die, what pathetic or fragile form will the world lose?
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Your unforgivable sins do not allow you to see my splendor.
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I think most people are more important than their opinions.
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He was very religious; he believed that he had a secret pact with God which exempted him from doing good in exchange for prayers and piety.
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A writer should have another lifetime to see if he’s appreciated.
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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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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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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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Life itself is a quotation.
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Doubt is one of the names of intelligence.
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I have sometimes suspected that the only thing that holds no mystery is happiness, because it is its own justification.
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I do not write for a select minority, which means nothing to me, nor for that adulated platonic entity known as ‘The Masses’. Both abstractions, so dear to the demagogue, I disbelieve in. I write for myself and for my friends, and I write to ease the passing of time.
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To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.
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