Jorge Luis Borges Quotes
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I cannot walk through the suburbs in the solitude of the night without thinking that the night pleases us because it suppresses idle details, just as our memory does.
Jorge Luis Borges
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Author Details:
Type:
Poet Quotes
Category:
Quotes
Date of Birth:
August 24, 1899
Date of Death:
June 14, 1986
Nationality:
Argentinian
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Related Authors:
Maya Angelou
Kahlil Gibran
Ogden Nash
Robert Frost
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Edgar Allan Poe
Walt Whitman
Langston Hughes
Emily Dickinson
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Select Jorge Luis Borges Quotations:
Life and death have been lacking in my life.
Jorge Luis Borges
In general, every country has the language it deserves.
Jorge Luis Borges
Life itself is a quotation.
Jorge Luis Borges
Writing is nothing more than a guided dream.
Jorge Luis Borges
Democracy is an abuse of statistics.
Jorge Luis Borges
Reality is not always probable, or likely.
Jorge Luis Borges
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.
Jorge Luis Borges
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Quote Keywords:
Because,
Cannot,
Details,
Does,
Idle,
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Memory,
Night,
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Pleases,
Solitude,
Suburbs,
Suppresses,
Thinking,
Through,
Us,
Walk,
Without
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Dictionary Links:
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Cannot,
Does,
Idle,
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Memory,
Night,
Our,
Solitude,
Thinking,
Through,
Us,
Walk,
Without
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All Jorge Luis Borges Quotations:
Any life is made up of...
Art always opts for the individual...
Democracy is an abuse of statistics.
I cannot walk through the suburbs...
I foresee that man will resign...
I have always imagined that Paradise...
I have known uncertainty: a state...
In general, every country has the...
In the order of literature, as...
Life and death have been lacking...
Life itself is a quotation.
Like all those possessing a library...
Like all writers, he measured the...
My undertaking is not difficult, essentially...
Nothing is built on stone; all...
One concept corrupts and confuses the...
Poetry remembers that it was an...
Reading is an activity subsequent to...
Reality is not always probable, or likely.
The central problem of novel-writing...
The fact is that all writers...
The Falklands thing was a fight...
The flattery of posterity is not...
The original is unfaithful to the translation.
The truth is that we live...
There is a concept that is...
Time is the substance from which...
To be immortal is commonplace; except...
To die for a religion is...
To fall in love is to...
Writing is nothing more than a...
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