The sea is an idiom I cannot decipher.
JORGE LUIS BORGESYou 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.
More Jorge Luis Borges Quotes
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Do you want to see what human eyes have never seen? Look at the moon. Do you want to hear what ears have never heard? Listen to the bird’s cry. Do you want to touch what hands have never touched? Touch the earth. Verily I say that God is about to create the world.
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Happy are the beloved and the lovers and those who can live without love.
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A book is not an isolated being: it is a relationship, an axis of innumerable relationships
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No one is anyone, one single immortal man is all men. Like Cornelius Agrippa, I am god, I am hero, I am philosopher, I am demon and I am world, which is a tedious way of saying that I do not exist.
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I think most people are more important than their opinions.
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In my next life I will try to commit more errors.
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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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I think of reading a book as no less an experience than travelling or falling in love.
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I have always come to life after coming to books.
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The things that are said in literature are always the same. What is important is the way they are said.
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Blindness has not been for me a total misfortune; it should not be seen in a pathetic way. It should be seen as a way of life: one of the styles of living.
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A poet is a discoverer rather than an inventor.
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Your unforgivable sins do not allow you to see my splendor.
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One concept corrupts and confuses the others. I am not speaking of the Evil whose limited sphere is ethics; I am speaking of the infinite.
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In general, every country has the language it deserves.
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