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Jorge Luis Borges Quotes

Jorge Luis Borges quotes about life

Argentinian Poet, Writer August 24, 1899 – June 14, 1986

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If I could live again my life,In the next - I'll try,- to make more mistakes,I won't try to be so perfect,I'll be more relaxed...I'll take fewer things seriously..I'll take more risks,I'll take more trips,I'll watch more sunsets,I'll climb more mountains,I'll swim more rivers,I'll go to more places I've never beenI'll eat more ice ...I'll have more real problems and less imaginary onesIf I could live again - I will travel light If I could live again - I'll try to work bare feet at the... Jorge Luis Borges
Distance and antiquity (the emphases of space and time) pull on our hearts. If we are already sobered by the thought that men lived two thousand five hundred years ago, how could we not be moved to know that they made verses, were spectators of the world, that they sheltered in light, lasting words something of their ponderous, fleeting life, words that fulfill a long destiny? Jorge Luis Borges
Poem Written in a Copy of BeowulfAt various times, I have asked myself what reasonsmoved me to study, while my night came down, without particular hope of satisfaction, the language of the blunt-tongued Anglo-Saxons. Used up by the years, my memoryloses its grip on words that I have vainlyrepeated and repeated. My life in the same wayweaves and unweaves its weary history. Then I tell myself: it must be that the soulhas some secret, sufficient way of knowingthat it is immortal, that its vast,... Jorge Luis Borges
Another school declares that all time has already transpired and that our life is only the crepuscular and no doubt falsified and mutilated memory or reflection of an irrecoverable process. Jorge Luis Borges
I remember him with a dark passionflower in his hand, looking at it as no one has ever looked at such a flower, though they might look from the twilight of day until the twilight of night, for a whole life long. Jorge Luis Borges
Jorge Luis Borges quote: "His life, measured in space and time, will take up a mere few..."
His life, measured in space and time, will take up a mere few lines, which my ignorance will abbreviate further. Jorge Luis Borges
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
So my life is a point-counterpoint, a kind of fugue, and a falling away–and everything winds up being lost to me, and everything falls into oblivion, or into the hands of the other man. Jorge Luis Borges
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. Jorge Luis Borges
Jorge Luis Borges quote: "Any life is made up of a single moment, the moment in which a..."
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
Jorge Luis Borges quote: "Life and death have been lacking in my life."
Life and death have been lacking in my life. Jorge Luis Borges
Jorge Luis Borges quote: "Loneliness does not worry me; life is difficult enough,..."
Loneliness does not worry me; life is difficult enough, putting up with yourself and with your own habits. Jorge Luis Borges
The thought came over me that never would one full and absolute moment, containing all the others, justify my life, that all of my instants would be provisional phases, annihilators of the past turned to face the future, and that beyond the episodic, the present, the circumstantial, we were nobody. Jorge Luis Borges
Jorge Luis Borges quote: "Thus my life is a flight and I lose everything and everything..."
Thus my life is a flight and I lose everything and everything belongs to oblivion, or to him. Jorge Luis Borges
Jorge Luis Borges quote: "Life itself is a quotation."
Life itself is a quotation. Jorge Luis Borges

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