Life itself is a quotation.
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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I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.
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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.
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Art is very mysterious. I wonder if you can really do any damage to art. I think that when we’re writing, something comes through or should come through, in spite of our theories. So theories are not really important.
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I had always thought of Paradise / In form and image as a library.
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Many of the characters are fools and they’re always playing tricks on me and treating me badly.
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The minotaur more than justifies the existence of the labyrinth.
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Each thing implies the universe.
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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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Poets, like the blind, can see in the dark.
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Death is just infinity closing in.
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Happy are the beloved and the lovers and those who can live without love.
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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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Your unforgivable sins do not allow you to see my splendor.
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When you reach my age, you realize you couldn’t have done things very much better or much worse than you did them in the first place.
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A writer should have another lifetime to see if he’s appreciated.
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