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#1

“[Buenos Aires]
No nos une el amor sino el espanto.
Será por eso que la quiero tanto”
― Jorge Luis Borges, L'altro, lo stesso

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“Hay que tener cuidado al elegir a los enemigos porque uno termina pareciéndose a ellos.”
― Jorge Luis Borges

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#3

“La muerte es una vida vivida. La vida es una muerte que viene.”
― Jorge Luis Borges

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“Being with you and not being with you is the only way I have to measure time.”
― Jorge Luis Borges

tags: love, time

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#5

“The original is unfaithful to the translation.”
― Jorge Luis Borges

tags: pomo

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#6

“Yo no hablo de venganzas ni perdones, el olvido es la única venganza y el único perdón.”
― Borges

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“I have no way of knowing whether the events that I am about to narrate are effects or causes.”
― Jorge Luis Borges, Collected Fictions

tags: self

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“¿De qué otra forma se puede amenazar que no sea de muerte? Lo interesante, lo original, sería que alguien lo amenace a uno con la inmortalidad.”
― Jorge Luis Borges

tags: amenazar, muerte

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#9

“When you reach my age, you realize you couldn't have done things very much better or much worse than you did them in the first place.”
― Jorge Luis Borges

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#10

“The certainty that everything has already been written annuls us, or renders us phantasmal.”
― Jorge Luis Borges

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#11

“When writers die they become books, which is, after all, not too bad an incarnation."

[As attributed by Alastair Reid in Neruda and Borges, The New Yorker, June 24, 1996; as well as in The Talk of the Town, The New Yorker, July 7, 1986]”
― Jorge Luis Borges

tags: books, death, immortality, literature, reading, transformation, words

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#12

“This is a good sign, having a broken heart. It means we have tried for something.”
― Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love

tags: heartache, love

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#13

“The only thing more unthinkable than leaving was staying; the only thing more impossible than staying was leaving.”
― Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love

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#14

“I crossed the street to walk in the sunshine.”
― Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love

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#15

“Some days are meant to be counted, others are meant to be weighed.”
― Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything

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“You can measure the happiness of a marriage by the number of scars that each partner carries on their tongues, earned from years of biting back angry words.”
― Elizabeth Gilbert, Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage

tags: arguments, family, marriage, relationships

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#17

“we must take care of our families wherever we find them.”
― Elizabeth Gilbert

tags: family

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#18

“I wondered, "Why have I been chasing happiness my whole life when bliss was here the entire time?”
― Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love

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#19

“Only the young and stupid are confident about sex and romance.”
― Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love

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#20

“How could two people who were so in love not end up happily ever after? It had to work. Didn’t it?”
― Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love

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#21

“Let your conscience be your guide.”
― Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love

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#22

“So now I have started living my own life. Imperfect and clumsy as it may look, it is resembling me now, thoroughly.”
― Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love

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#23

“A fish and a bird may indeed fall in love, but where shall they live?”
― Elizabeth Gilbert, Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage

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#24

“Italian men are like show poodles. Sometimes they look so good I want to applaud.”
― Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love

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#25

“You may return here once you have fully come to understand that you are always here.”
― Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love

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#26

“A wise girl kisses but doesn't love, listens but doesn't believe, and leaves before she is left.”
― Marilyn Monroe

tags: attributed-no-source

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#27

“Remember, we're madly in love, so it's all right to kiss me anytime you feel like it.”
― Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games

tags: humor

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#28

“Is it possible for home to be a person and not a place?”
― Stephanie Perkins, Anna and the French Kiss

tags: home, lover, person

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#29

“He stared at her, knowing with certainty that he was falling in love. He pulled her close and kissed her beneath a blanket of stars, wondering how on earth he'd been lucky enough to find her.”
― Nicholas Sparks, The Last Song

tags: love

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#30

“Never close your lips to those whom you have already opened your heart.”
― Charles Dickens

tags: kissing, love, romance

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