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Before Quotes by Jorge Luis Borges
- Poetry remembers that it was an oral art before it was a written art.
- Literature is not exhaustible, for the sufficient and simple reason that a single book is not. A book is not an isolated entity: it is…
- A man sets out to draw the world. As the years go by, he peoples a space with images of provinces, kingdoms, mountains, bays, ships,…
- You have wakened not out of sleep, but into a prior dream, and that dream lies within another, and so on, to infinity, which is…
- Days and nights passed over this despair of flesh, but one morning he awoke, looked (with calm now) at the blurred things that lay about…
- Truly fine poetry must be read aloud. A good poem does not allow itself to be read in a low voice or silently. If we…
- A man sets himself the task of portraying the world. Shortly before he dies he discovers that this patient labyrinth of lines is a drawing…
- Sometimes, looking at the many books I have at home, I feel I shall die before I come to the end of them, yet I…
- Through the years, a man peoples a space with images of provinces, kingdoms, mountains, bays, ships, islands, fishes, rooms, tools, stars, horses and people. Shortly…
More Before Quotes
- Your lost friends are not dead, but gone before, advanced a stage or two upon that road which you must travel in… — Aristophanes
- It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those… — Aristotle
- I guess I wanted to leave America for awhile. It wasn't that I wanted to become an expatriate, or just never come… — Paul Auster
- Don't turn away from possible futures before you're certain you don't have anything to learn from them. — Richard Bach
- The first person to promulgate the Golden Rule, which was the bedrock of this empathic spirituality, was Confucius 500 years before Christ. — Karen Armstrong
- Today we often think that before we start living a religious life we have first to accept the creedal doctrines and that… — Karen Armstrong
- I'm sure most of us remember being a kid and you have all of this endless time where two weeks before Christmas… — Andrea Arnold
- I began wearing hats as a young lawyer because it helped me to establish my professional identity. Before that, whenever I was… — Bella Abzug
- If you're paid before you walk on the court, what's the point in playing as if your life depended on it? — Arthur Ashe
- Funny things tend not to happen to me. I am not a natural comic. I need to think about things a lot… — Rowan Atkinson
- Before the BBC, I joined the Navy in order to travel. — David Attenborough
- Before the Civil War, Canada was at the top of the underground railroad. If you made it into Canada, you were safe… — Margaret Atwood