The central fact of my life has been the existence of words and the possibility of weaving those words into poetry.
JORGE LUIS BORGES
The tango is a direct expression of something that poets have often tried to state in words: the belief that a fight may be a celebration.
More Jorge Luis Borges Quotes
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The central fact of my life has been the existence of words and the possibility of weaving those words into poetry.
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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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Doubt is one of the names of intelligence.
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Any life, however long and complicated it may be, actually consists of a single moment — the moment when a man knows forever more who he is.
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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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The word happiness exists in every language; it is plausible the thing itself exists.
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I am almost sure to be blotted out by death, but sometimes I think it is not impossible that I may continue to live in some other manner after my physical death . Or, as Hamlet wonders, what dreams will come when we leave this body?
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Being with you and not being with you is the only way I have to measure time.
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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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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.
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A system is nothing more than the subordination of all aspects of the universe to any one of such aspects.
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I had always thought of Paradise / In form and image as a library.
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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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Creativity is suspended between memory and forgetting.
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Writing long books is a laborious and impoverishing act of foolishness: expanding in five hundred pages an idea that could be perfectly explained in a few minutes. A better procedure is to pretend that those books already exist and to offer a summary, a commentary.
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