In Spanish it is very difficult to make things flow, because words are over-long. But in English, you have light words.
JORGE LUIS BORGESDo 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.
More Jorge Luis Borges Quotes
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Beyond my anxiety, beyond this writing, the universe waits, inexhaustible, inviting.
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Reality is not always probable, or likely.
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To arrange a library is to practice in a quiet and modest way the art of criticism.
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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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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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Censorship is the mother of metaphor.
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Doubt is one of the names of intelligence.
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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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I have sometimes suspected that the only thing that holds no mystery is happiness, because it is its own justification.
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Creativity is suspended between memory and forgetting.
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Reality is partial to symmetry and slight anachronisms
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So plant your own gardens and decorate your own soul, instead of waiting for someone to bring you flowers.
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Writing is nothing more than a guided dream.
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I cannot sleep unless I am surrounded by books.
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A book is not an isolated being: it is a relationship, an axis of innumerable relationships
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