In general, every country has the language it deserves.
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.
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I can give you my loneliness, my darkness, the hunger of my heart, I am trying to bribe you with uncertainty, with danger, with defeat.
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It also occurred to him that throughout history, humankind has told two stories: the story of a lost ship sailing the Mediterranean seas in quest of a beloved isle, and the story of a god who allows himself to be crucified on Golgotha.
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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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Your unforgivable sins do not allow you to see my splendor.
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Thus my life is a flight and I lose everything and everything belongs to oblivion, or to him.
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There is nothing in the world that is not mysterious, but the mystery is more evident in certain things than in others: in the sea, in the eyes of the elders, in the color yellow, and in music.
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I thought that a man can be an enemy of other men, of the moments of other men, but not of a country: not of fireflies, words, gardens, streams of water, sunsets.
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I have committed the worst of sins one can commit. I have not been happy.
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There is an hour of the afternoon when the plain is on the verge of saying something. It never says, or perhaps it says it infinitely, or perhaps we do not understand it, or we understand it and it is untranslatable as music.
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Beyond my anxiety, beyond this writing, the universe waits, inexhaustible, inviting.
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What you really value is what you miss, not what you have.
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Time, which despoils castles, enriches verses.
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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 have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.
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Art is endless like a river flowing, passing, yet remaining.
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