Censorship is the mother of metaphor.
JORGE LUIS BORGESI 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.
More Jorge Luis Borges Quotes
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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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I gazed at every mirror on the planet, not one gave back my reflection.
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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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Time is the substance from which I am made. Time is a river which carries me along, but I am the river; it is a tiger that devours me, but I am the tiger; it is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire.
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Every novel is an ideal plane inserted into the realm of reality.
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Life itself is a quotation.
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In my next life I will try to commit more errors.
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He consorted with prostitutes and poets and with persons even worse.
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It’s a shame that we have to choose between two such second-rate countries as the USSR and the USA.
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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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In Spanish it is very difficult to make things flow, because words are over-long. But in English, you have light words.
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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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Time, which despoils castles, enriches verses.
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Reality favors symmetry.
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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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