I gazed at every mirror on the planet, not one gave back my reflection.
JORGE LUIS BORGESWhen I wake up, I wake to something worse. It’s the astonishment of being myself.
More Jorge Luis Borges Quotes
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The mightiest love was granted him Love that does not expect to be loved.
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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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Don’t talk unless you can improve the silence.
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Your unforgivable sins do not allow you to see my splendor.
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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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Only in the present do things happen.
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How can we manage to illuminate the pathos of our lives?
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Doubt is one of the names of intelligence.
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Nothing is built on stone; all is built on sand, but we must build as if the sand were stone.
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I ask of any God, of any gods, that if they give immortality, I hope to be granted oblivion also.
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Another school declares that all time has already transpired and that our life is only the crepuscular and no doubt falsified and mutilated memory or reflection of an irrecoverable process.
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We have stopped believing in progress. What progress that is !
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I had always thought of Paradise / In form and image as a library.
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The word happiness exists in every language; it is plausible the thing itself exists.
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The future is inevitable and precise, but it may not occur. God lurks in the gaps.
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