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.
JORGE LUIS BORGESBeyond my anxiety, beyond this writing, the universe waits, inexhaustible, inviting.
More Jorge Luis Borges Quotes
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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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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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May Heaven exist, even if my place is Hell.
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I have committed the worst of sins one can commit. I have not been happy.
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It means much to have loved, to have been happy, to have laid my hand on the living Garden, even for a day.
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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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Everything touches everything.
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Being an agnostic means all things are possible, even God, even the Holy Trinity. This world is so strange that anything may happen, or may not happen. Being an agnostic makes me live in a larger, a more fantastic kind of world, almost uncanny. It makes me more tolerant.
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He consorted with prostitutes and poets and with persons even worse.
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Truth never penetrates an unwilling mind.
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While we are asleep in this world, we are awake in another one.
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The task of art is to transform what is continuously happening to us, to transform all of these things into symbols, into music, into something which can last in man’s memory. That is our duty. If we don’t fulfill it, we feel unhappy.
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I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.
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If space is infinite, we may be at any point in space. If time is infinite, we may be at any point in time.
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Poets, like the blind, can see in the dark.
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