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Up Quotes by Jorge Luis Borges
- Any life, no matter how long and complex it may be, is made up of a single moment-the moment in which a man finds out,…
- He constructed a vast labyrinthine of periods, made impassable by the piling-up of clauses upon clauses-clauses in which oversight and bad grammar seemed manifestations of…
- Any life is made up of a single moment, the moment in which a man finds out, once and for all, who he 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…
- In vain have oceans been squandered on you, in vain the sun, wonderfully seen through Whitman’s eyes. You have used up the years and they…
- His life, measured in space and time, will take up a mere few lines, which my ignorance will abbreviate further.
- The dictionary is based on the hypothesis -- obviously an unproven one -- that languages are made up of equivalent synonyms.
- The gods weave misfortunes for men, so that the generations to come will have something to sing about.” Mallarmé repeats, less beautifully, what Homer said;…
- Loneliness does not worry me; life is difficult enough, putting up with yourself and with your own habits.
- When I wake up, I wake to something worse. It’s the astonishment of being myself
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