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"35 Jorge Luis Borges Quotes & Sayings

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Born: 24 August 1899. Died: 14 June 1986 | Writer | Essayist | Poet | Translator |

The mind was dreaming. The world was its dream.

Mind Dreaming World
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Life itself is a quotation.

Life Quotation
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When a writer dies, he becomes his books.

Writer Dies Books
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Reading . . . is an activity subsequent to writing: more resigned, more civil, more intellectual.

Reading Writing Civil Intellectual
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Literature is not exhaustible, for the sufficient and simple reason that a single book is not.

Literature Sufficient Reason Book
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The machinery of the world is far too complex for the simplicity of men.

Machinery World Complex Men
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Fame is a form, perhaps the worst form, of incomprehension.

Fame Form Form Incomprehension
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I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.

Imagined Paradise Library
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I cannot sleep unless I am surrounded by books.

Sleep Sorrounded Books
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Reality is not always probable, or likely.

Reality Probable Likely
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To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.

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.

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.

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

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.

Time River Destroy Fire
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The original is unfaithful to the translation.

Original Unfaithful Translation
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To die for a religion is easier than to live it absolutely.

Die Religion Easier Live
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Writing is nothing more than a guided dream.
Writing Guided Dream
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You who read me, are You sure of understanding my language?

Read Understanding Language
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We accept reality so readily - perhaps because we sense that nothing is real.

Reality Sense Real
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Don't talk unless you can improve the silence.

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.

Plant Gardens Soul Flowers
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Nothing is built on stone; All is built on sand, but we must build as if the sand were stone.
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

Believe Time Free Government
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A book is not an isolated being: it is a relationship, an axis of innumerable relationships

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.

Loneliness Worry Life Habits
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Happy are the beloved and the lovers and those who can live without love.

Happy Beloved Live Love
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From my weakness, I drew strength that never left me.

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

Life Complicated Moment Man
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The art of writing is mysterious, the opinions we hold are ephemeral

Art Writing Opinions Ephemeral
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As the end approaches, there are no longer any images from memory - there are only words.

End Images Memory Words
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..a miracle has the right to impose conditions.

Miracle Right Impose Conditons
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Democracy is an abuse of statistics

Democracy Abuse Statistics
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Poetry remembers that it was an oral art before it was a written art.

Poetry Oral Art Written
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The central problem of novel-writing is causality.

Problem Writing Casualty
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Jorge Luis Borges Quotes & Sayings