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35 Jorge Luis Borges Quotes & Sayings
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35 Jorge Luis Borges Quotes & Sayings
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Born: 24 August 1899. Died: 14 June 1986 |
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Essayist
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The mind was dreaming. The world was its dream.
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Mind
Dreaming
World
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Life itself is a quotation.
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Life
Quotation
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When a writer dies, he becomes his books.
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Writer
Dies
Books
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Reading . . . is an activity subsequent to writing: more resigned, more civil, more intellectual.
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Reading
Writing
Civil
Intellectual
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Literature is not exhaustible, for the sufficient and simple reason that a single book is not.
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Literature
Sufficient
Reason
Book
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The machinery of the world is far too complex for the simplicity of men.
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Machinery
World
Complex
Men
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Fame is a form, perhaps the worst form, of incomprehension.
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Fame
Form
Form
Incomprehension
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I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.
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Imagined
Paradise
Library
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I cannot sleep unless I am surrounded by books.
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Sleep
Sorrounded
Books
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Reality is not always probable, or likely.
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Reality
Probable
Likely
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To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.
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Love
Create
Religion
Falible god
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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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Pride
Pages
Written
Read
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Heaven and hell seem out of proportion to me: the actions of men do not deserve so much.
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Heaven
Hell
Actions
Men
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Being with you and not being with you is the only way I have to measure time
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Way
Measure
Time
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Time is the substance I am made of. Time is a river which sweeps me along, but I am the river; it is a tiger which destroys me, but I am the tiger; it is a fire which consumes me, but I am the fire.
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Time
River
Destroy
Fire
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The original is unfaithful to the translation.
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Original
Unfaithful
Translation
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To die for a religion is easier than to live it absolutely.
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Die
Religion
Easier
Live
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Writing
Guided
Dream
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You who read me, are You sure of understanding my language?
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Read
Understanding
Language
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We accept reality so readily - perhaps because we sense that nothing is real.
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Reality
Sense
Real
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Don't talk unless you can improve the silence.
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Talk
Improve
Silence
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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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Plant
Gardens
Soul
Flowers
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Nothing
Built
Stone
Sand
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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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Believe
Time
Free
Government
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A book is not an isolated being: it is a relationship, an axis of innumerable relationships
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Book
Isolated
Relationship
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Loneliness does not worry me; life is difficult enough, putting up with yourself and with your own habits.
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Loneliness
Worry
Life
Habits
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Happy are the beloved and the lovers and those who can live without love.
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Happy
Beloved
Live
Love
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From my weakness, I drew strength that never left me.
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Weakness
Strength
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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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Life
Complicated
Moment
Man
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The art of writing is mysterious, the opinions we hold are ephemeral
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Art
Writing
Opinions
Ephemeral
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As the end approaches, there are no longer any images from memory - there are only words.
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End
Images
Memory
Words
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..a miracle has the right to impose conditions.
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Miracle
Right
Impose
Conditons
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Democracy is an abuse of statistics
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Democracy
Abuse
Statistics
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Poetry remembers that it was an oral art before it was a written art.
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Poetry
Oral
Art
Written
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The central problem of novel-writing is causality.
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Problem
Writing
Casualty
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Jorge Luis Borges Quotes & Sayings