Heaven and hell seem out of proportion to me: the actions of men do not deserve so much.
JORGE LUIS BORGESA writer needs loneliness, and he gets his share of it. He needs love, and he gets shared and also unshared love. He needs friendship. In fact, he needs the universe. To be a writer is, in a sense, to be a day-dreamer – to be living a kind of double life.
More Jorge Luis Borges Quotes
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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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Each thing implies the universe.
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The flattery of posterity is not worth much more than contemporary flattery, which is worth nothing.
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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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I saw a sunset in Queretaro that seemed to reflect the color of a rose in Bengal.
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I cannot walk through the suburbs in the solitude of the night without thinking that the night pleases us because it suppresses idle details, just as our memory does.
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I am not sure of anything, I know nothing. Can you imagine that I don’t even know the date of my own death?
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In my next life I will try to commit more errors.
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When I wake up, I wake to something worse. It’s the astonishment of being myself.
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I had always thought of Paradise / In form and image as a library.
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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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To be immortal is commonplace; except for man, all creatures are immortal, for they are ignorant of death; what is divine, terrible, incomprehensible, is to know that one is immortal.
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Chang Tzu tells us of a persevering man who after three laborious years mastered the art of dragon-slaying. For the rest of his days, he had not a single opportunity to test his skills.
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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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I believe that in time we will have reached the point where we will deserve to be free of government.
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