Then he reflected that reality does not usually coincide with our anticipation of it; with a logic of his own he inferred that to forsee a circumstantial detail is to prevent its happening. Trusting in this weak magic, he invented, so that they would not happen, the most gruesome details.

Jorge Luis Borges

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So plant your own gardens and decorate your own soul, instead of waiting for someone to bring you flowers.

Jorge Luis Borges

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Don't talk unless you can improve the silence. by Jorge Luis Borges

Don't talk unless you can improve the silence.

Jorge Luis Borges

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Being with you and not being with you is the only way I have to m... by Jorge Luis Borges

Being with you and not being with you is the only way I have to measure time.

Jorge Luis Borges

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I am not sure that I exist, actually. I am all the writers that I have read, all the people that I have met, all the women that I have loved; all the cities I have visited.

Jorge Luis Borges

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All that happens to us, including our humiliations, our misfortunes, our embarrassments, all is given to us as raw material, as clay, so that we may shape our art.

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In my next life I will try to commit more errors. by Jorge Luis Borges

In my next life I will try to commit more errors.

Jorge Luis Borges

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The mind was dreaming. The world was its dream. by Jorge Luis Borges

The mind was dreaming. The world was its dream.

Jorge Luis Borges

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The worst labyrinth is not that intricate form that can entrap us forever, but a single and precise straight line

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Doubt is one of the names of intelligence. by Jorge Luis Borges

Doubt is one of the names of intelligence.

Jorge Luis Borges

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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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I cannot sleep unless I am surrounded by books. by Jorge Luis Borges

I cannot sleep unless I am surrounded by books.

Jorge Luis Borges

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The future is inevitable and precise, but it may not occur. God l... by Jorge Luis Borges

The future is inevitable and precise, but it may not occur. God lurks in the gaps.

Jorge Luis Borges

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The fact is that poetry is not the books in the library . . . Poetry is the encounter of the reader with the book, the discovery of the book.

Jorge Luis Borges

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Truth never penetrates an unwilling mind. by Jorge Luis Borges

Truth never penetrates an unwilling mind.

Jorge Luis Borges

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A book is a physical object in a world of physical objects. It is a set of dead symbols. And then the right reader comes along, and the words—or rather the poetry behind the words, for the words themselves are mere symbols—spring to life, and we have a resurrection of the word.

Jorge Luis Borges

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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.

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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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What you really value is what you miss, not what you have. by Jorge Luis Borges

What you really value is what you miss, not what you have.

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From my weakness, I drew strength that never left me. by Jorge Luis Borges

From my weakness, I drew strength that never left me.

Jorge Luis Borges

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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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