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Jorge Luis Borges Quotes

Total quotes: 8
“Nothing is built on stone; All is built on sand, but we must build as if the sand were stone.”
— Jorge Luis Borges, via GoodReads
Tagged: Anything is Possible
“Poetry springs from something deeper; it’s beyond intelligence. It may not even be linked with wisdom. It’s a thing of its own; it has a nature of its own. Undefinable.”
— Jorge Luis Borges, Jorge Luis Borges, The Art of Fiction No. 39
Tagged: Poetry, Poets, Literature, Deep, meaningful
“I have always imagined that paradise will be some kind of library.”
— Jorge Luis Borges, El hacedor(Spanish Edition)
Tagged: Literature, Lover and Friend
“Two souls don’t find each other by simple accident.”
— Jorge Luis Borges, A quote by Jorge Luis Borges
Tagged: Souls, find, accident, Love
“The mind was dreaming. The world was its dream.”
— Jorge Luis Borges, Labyrinths: Selected Stories and Other Writings
Tagged: Dream, Reality, Imagination
“It is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire.”
— Jorge Luis Borges, Labyrinths: Selected Stories and Other Writings
Tagged: Poetry, strength, Courage, Bravery
“I have always come to life after coming to books.”
— Jorge Luis Borges, Literature as Pleasure, Pleasure as Literature
Tagged: Life, Books, Coming To Life, Reading, Pleasure Of Reading, Bookworm, Book Lovers
“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 the number of grains of sand. The path that you are to take is endless, and you will die before you have truly awakened.”
— Jorge Luis Borges, Borges, between History and Eternity
Tagged: Infinity, Truth About Life, Existence, Being human, Death, Awakening
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