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Jorge Luis Borges Quotes

Happy are the beloved and the lovers and those who can live without love Picture Quote #1

All theories are legitimate, no matter. What matters is what you do with them Picture Quote #1

Translations are a partial and precious documentation of the changes the text suffers Picture Quote #1

Reality may avoid the obligation to be interesting, but... hypotheses may not Picture Quote #1

You may win your heart’s desire, but in the end you’re cheated of it by death Picture Quote #1

There are people who barely feel poetry, and they are generally dedicated to teaching it Picture Quote #1

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Time forks perpetually toward innumerable futures. In one of them I am your enemy Picture Quote #1

Thus my life is a flight and I lose everything and everything belongs to oblivion Picture Quote #1

Time is the substance from which I am made. Time is a river which carries me along, but I am the river; it is a tiger that devours me, but I am the tiger; it is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

The possibilities of the art of combination are not infinite, but they tend to be frightful Picture Quote #1

One literature differs from another, either before or after it, not so much because of the text as for the manner in which it is read Picture Quote #1

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I have sometimes suspected that the only thing that holds no mystery is happiness, because it is its own justification Picture Quote #1

The earth we inhabit is an error, an incompetent parody. Mirrors and paternity are abominable because they multiply and affirm it Picture Quote #1

When I write, I do it urged by an intimate necessity. I don’t have in mind an exclusive public, or a public of multitudes, I don’t think in either thing. I think about expressing what I want to say. I try to do it in the simplest way possible Picture Quote #1

A writer-and, I believe, generally all persons-must think that whatever happens to him or her is a resource Picture Quote #1

The mathematical sciences wield their particular language made of digits and signs, no less subtle than any other Picture Quote #1

For me, beauty is a physical sensation, something we feel with our whole body. It is not the result of judgement. We do not arrive at it by way of rules. We either feel beauty or we don’t Picture Quote #1

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Any life is made up of a single moment, the moment in which a man finds out, once and for all, who he is Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

I foresee that man will resign himself each day to new abominations, and soon that only bandits and soldiers will be left Picture Quote #1

In the order of literature, as in others, there is no act that is not the coronation of an infinite series of causes and the source of an infinite series of effects Picture Quote #1

Like all writers, he measured the achievements of others by what they had accomplished, asking of them that they measure him by what he envisaged or planned Picture Quote #1

My undertaking is not difficult, essentially. I should only have to be immortal to carry it out Picture Quote #1

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Nothing is built on stone; all is built on sand, but we must build as if the sand were stone Picture Quote #1

The flattery of posterity is not worth much more than contemporary flattery, which is worth nothing Picture Quote #1

The truth is that we live out our lives putting off all that can be put off; perhaps we all know deep down that we are immortal and that sooner or later all men will do and know all things Picture Quote #1

That one individual should awaken in another memories that belong to still a third is an obvious paradox Picture Quote #1

Dictatorships foster oppression, dictatorships foster servitude, dictatorships foster cruelty; more abominable is the fact that they foster idiocy Picture Quote #1

Being with you and not being with you is the only way I have to measure time Picture Quote #1

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Happy are the beloved and the lovers and those who can live without love (Jorge Luis Borges Quotes) All theories are legitimate, no matter. What matters is what you do with them (Jorge Luis Borges Quotes) Translations are a partial and precious documentation of the changes the text suffers (Jorge Luis Borges Quotes) Reality may avoid the obligation to be interesting, but... hypotheses may not (Jorge Luis Borges Quotes) You may win your heart’s desire, but in the end you’re cheated of it by death (Jorge Luis Borges Quotes) There are people who barely feel poetry, and they are generally dedicated to teaching it (Jorge Luis Borges Quotes) Time forks perpetually toward innumerable futures. In one of them I am your enemy (Jorge Luis Borges Quotes) Thus my life is a flight and I lose everything and everything belongs to oblivion (Jorge Luis Borges Quotes) Time is the substance from which I am made. Time is a river which carries me along, but I am the river; it is a tiger that devours me, but I am the tiger; it is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire (Jorge Luis Borges Quotes) 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 (Jorge Luis Borges Quotes) The possibilities of the art of combination are not infinite, but they tend to be frightful (Jorge Luis Borges Quotes) One literature differs from another, either before or after it, not so much because of the text as for the manner in which it is read (Jorge Luis Borges Quotes) I have sometimes suspected that the only thing that holds no mystery is happiness, because it is its own justification (Jorge Luis Borges Quotes) The earth we inhabit is an error, an incompetent parody. Mirrors and paternity are abominable because they multiply and affirm it (Jorge Luis Borges Quotes) When I write, I do it urged by an intimate necessity. I don’t have in mind an exclusive public, or a public of multitudes, I don’t think in either thing. I think about expressing what I want to say. I try to do it in the simplest way possible (Jorge Luis Borges Quotes) A writer-and, I believe, generally all persons-must think that whatever happens to him or her is a resource (Jorge Luis Borges Quotes) The mathematical sciences wield their particular language made of digits and signs, no less subtle than any other (Jorge Luis Borges Quotes) For me, beauty is a physical sensation, something we feel with our whole body. It is not the result of judgement. We do not arrive at it by way of rules. We either feel beauty or we don’t (Jorge Luis Borges Quotes) Any life is made up of a single moment, the moment in which a man finds out, once and for all, who he is (Jorge Luis Borges Quotes) 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 (Jorge Luis Borges Quotes) I foresee that man will resign himself each day to new abominations, and soon that only bandits and soldiers will be left (Jorge Luis Borges Quotes) In the order of literature, as in others, there is no act that is not the coronation of an infinite series of causes and the source of an infinite series of effects (Jorge Luis Borges Quotes) Like all writers, he measured the achievements of others by what they had accomplished, asking of them that they measure him by what he envisaged or planned (Jorge Luis Borges Quotes) My undertaking is not difficult, essentially. I should only have to be immortal to carry it out (Jorge Luis Borges Quotes) Nothing is built on stone; all is built on sand, but we must build as if the sand were stone (Jorge Luis Borges Quotes) The flattery of posterity is not worth much more than contemporary flattery, which is worth nothing (Jorge Luis Borges Quotes) The truth is that we live out our lives putting off all that can be put off; perhaps we all know deep down that we are immortal and that sooner or later all men will do and know all things (Jorge Luis Borges Quotes) That one individual should awaken in another memories that belong to still a third is an obvious paradox (Jorge Luis Borges Quotes) Dictatorships foster oppression, dictatorships foster servitude, dictatorships foster cruelty; more abominable is the fact that they foster idiocy (Jorge Luis Borges Quotes) Being with you and not being with you is the only way I have to measure time (Jorge Luis Borges Quotes)

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