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To bless thine enemy is a good way to satisfy thy vanity.
What you really value is what you miss, not what you have.
I think most people are more important than their opinions.
To die for a religion is easier than to live it absolutely.
You who read me, are You sure of understanding my language?
Your unforgivable sins do not allow you to see my splendor.
Fame is a form, perhaps the worst form, of incomprehension.
We forget that we are all dead men conversing with dead men.
Art is endless like a river flowing, passing, yet remaining.
I saw all the mirrors on earth and none of them reflected me.
We have stopped believing in progress. What progress that is !
My advanced age has taught me the resignation of being Borges.
While we are asleep in this world, we are awake in another one
Poetry springs from something deeper; it's beyond intelligence.
I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.
To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.
The minotaur more than justifies the existence of the labyrinth.
For myth is at the beginning of literature, and also at its end.
Every novel is an ideal plane inserted into the realm of reality.
The Falklands thing was a fight between two bald men over a comb.
A writer should have another lifetime to see if he's appreciated.
There is no intellectual exercise which is not ultimately useless.
I had always thought of Paradise / In form and image as a library.
I secretly assumed, as poets do, The duty on me to define the moon.
Unlike the novel, a short story may be, for all purposes, essential.
There's no need to build a labyrinth when the entire universe is one.
The art of writing is mysterious, the opinions we hold are ephemeral.
Poetry remembers that it was an oral art before it was a written art.
He consorted with prostitutes and poets...and with persons even worse.
Art always opts for the individual, the concrete; art is not Platonic.
I gazed at every mirror on the planet, not one gave back my reflection.
Best thing to happen for a poet. A fine death, no? An impressive death.
The machinery of the world is far too complex for the simplicity of men.
The mightiest love was granted him Love that does not expect to be loved.
Happy are the beloved and the lovers and those who can live without love.
My books standing there on the shelf do not know that I have written them.
The heresies we should fear are those which can be confused with orthodoxy.
We have shared out, like thieves, the amazing treasures of days and nights.
I have committed the worst of sins one can commit... I have not been happy.
I will pause to consider this eternity from which the subsequent ones derive.
Being with you and not being with you is the only way I have to measure time.
We accept reality so readily - perhaps because we sense that nothing is real.
You may win your heart's desire, but in the end you're cheated of it by death.
All theories are legitimate, no matter. What matters is what you do with them.
i walk slowly, like one who comes from so far away he doesn't expect to arrive
Reality may avoid the obligation to be interesting, but ... hypotheses may not.
When I wake up, I wake to something worse. It’s the astonishment of being myself
I owe the discovery of Uqbar to the conjunction of a mirror and an encyclopedia.
I saw a sunset in Queretaro that seemed to reflect the color of a rose in Bengal.
The future is inevitable and precise, but it may not occur. God lurks in the gaps.