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Jorge Luis Borges Quotes: I cannot sleep unless I am surrounded by books.
         

I cannot sleep unless I am surrounded by books.


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I cannot sleep unless I am surrounded by books.
         



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So plant your own gardens and decorate your own soul, instead of waiting for someone to bring you flowers.

So plant your own gardens and decorate your own soul, instead of waiting for someone to bring you flowers.



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Being with you and not being with you is the only way I have to measure time.



Don't talk unless you can improve the silence.

Don't talk unless you can improve the silence.



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.

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.



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

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.



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.



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.

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.



Truth never penetrates an unwilling mind.

Truth never penetrates an unwilling mind.





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A doctor who keeps a person from becoming ill deserves more merit than one who cures him.

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