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Jorge Luis Borges Quotes: Nothing is built on stone; all is built on sand, but we must build as if the sand were stone.
         

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


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Don't talk unless you can improve the silence.



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I am not sure that I exist, actually. I am all the writers that I have read, all the people that I have met, all the women that I have loved; all the cities I have visited.



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I cannot sleep unless I am surrounded by books.



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The worst labyrinth is not that intricate form that can entrap us forever, but a single and precise straight line



The fact is that poetry is not the books in the library . . . Poetry is the encounter of the reader with the book, the discovery of the book.

The fact is that poetry is not the books in the library . . . Poetry is the encounter of the reader with the book, the discovery of the book.



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I can give you my loneliness, my darkness, the hunger of my heart, I am trying to bribe you with uncertainty, with danger, with defeat.



The original is unfaithful to the translation.

The original is unfaithful to the translation.



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