Argentinian - Poet | August 24, 1899 - June 14, 1986
Nothing is built on stone; all is built on sand, but we must build as if the sand were stone.
Jorge Luis Borges
SandStoneBuildNothingMustBuilt
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.
TimeFireI AmRiverMeTiger
I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.
ImaginationLibraryParadiseKind
Life itself is a quotation.
LifeQuotationItself
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.
WalkMemorySolitudeNightThinking
I have known uncertainty: a state unknown to the Greeks.
UncertaintyUnknownGreeksState
I foresee that man will resign himself each day to new abominations, and soon that only bandits and soldiers will be left.
DayManNewWillSoldiersLeft
Any life is made up of a single moment, the moment in which a man finds out, once and for all, who he is.
LifeMomentManSingleOutUp
Life and death have been lacking in my life.
LifeDeathMy LifeLife And Death
To be immortal is commonplace; except for man, all creatures are immortal, for they are ignorant of death; what is divine, terrible, incomprehensible, is to know that one is immortal.
DeathManKnowIgnorantDivine
Democracy is an abuse of statistics.
GovernmentDemocracyStatisticsAbuse
To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.
LoveGodReligionLove IsFall
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