Life and death have been lacking in my life.

Quote by Jorge Luis Borges

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Nothing is built on stone; all is built on sand, but we must build as...

Nothing is built on stone; all is built on sand, but we must build as...

I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.

I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.

My undertaking is not difficult, essentially. I should only have to be immortal to carry...

My undertaking is not difficult, essentially. I should only have to be immortal to carry...

To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.

To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.

Reality is not always probable, or likely.

Reality is not always probable, or likely.

Writing is nothing more than a guided dream.

Writing is nothing more than a guided dream.

The truth is that we live out our lives putting off all that can be...

The truth is that we live out our lives putting off all that can be...

I have known uncertainty: a state unknown to the Greeks.

I have known uncertainty: a state unknown to the Greeks.

Poetry remembers that it was an oral art before it was a written art.

Poetry remembers that it was an oral art before it was a written art.

To be immortal is commonplace; except for man, all creatures are immortal, for they are...

To be immortal is commonplace; except for man, all creatures are immortal, for they are...

I cannot walk through the suburbs in the solitude of the night without thinking that...

I cannot walk through the suburbs in the solitude of the night without thinking that...

Writing is nothing more than a guided dream.

Writing is nothing more than a guided dream.

To die for a religion is easier than to live it absolutely.

To die for a religion is easier than to live it absolutely.

Reality is not always probable, or likely.

Reality is not always probable, or likely.

Any life is made up of a single moment, the moment in which a man...

Any life is made up of a single moment, the moment in which a man...

The original is unfaithful to the translation.

The original is unfaithful to the translation.

Life itself is a quotation.

Life itself is a quotation.

Time is the substance from which I am made. Time is a river which carries...

Time is the substance from which I am made. Time is a river which carries...

For I have known them all already, know them all -- have known the evenings,...

For I have known them all already, know them all -- have known the evenings,...

A man who dares to waste one hour of life has not discovered the value...

A man who dares to waste one hour of life has not discovered the value...