Philipp Penetzdorfer > Philipp's Quotes

“To say goodbye is to die a little.”
― Raymond Chandler, The Long Goodbye

“Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it. ”
― Raymond Chandler

“There is no trap so deadly as the trap you set for yourself.”
― Raymond Chandler, Long Goodbye

“I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.”
― Jorge Luis Borges

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

“To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.”
― Jorge Luis Borges

“So plant your own gardens and decorate your own soul, instead of waiting for someone to bring you flowers.”
― Jorge Luis Borges

“Don't talk unless you can improve the silence.”
― Jorge Luis Borges

“Laughter is the shortest distance between two people.”
― Victor Borge

“Reality is not always probable, or likely.”
― Jorge Luis Borges

“Personally, I am a hedonistic reader; I have never read a book merely because it was ancient. I read books for the aesthetic emotions they offer me, and I ignore the commentaries and criticism.”
― Jorge Luis Borges, Seven Nights

“Life itself is a quotation.”
― Jorge Luis Borges

“Writing is nothing more than a guided dream.”
― Jorge Luis Borges

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

“You who read me, are You sure of understanding my language?”
― Jorge Luis Borges, The Library of Babel

“Besides, rereading, not reading, is what counts.”
― Jorge Luis Borges

“If I could live again my life,
In the next - I'll try,
- to make more mistakes,
I won't try to be so perfect,
I'll be more relaxed...
I'll take fewer things seriously..
I'll take more risks,
I'll take more trips,
I'll watch more sunsets,
I'll climb more mountains,
I'll swim more rivers,
I'll go to more places I've never been
I'll eat more ice ...I'll have more real problems and less imaginary ones

If I could live again - I will travel light
If I could live again - I'll try to work bare feet at the beginning of spring till the end of autumn,
I'll watch more sunrises ...If I have the life to live”
― Anonymous

“Nothing is built on stone; All is built on sand, but we must build as if the sand were stone.”
― Jorge Luis Borges

“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

“What man of us has never felt, walking through the twilight or writing down a date from his past, that he has lost something infinite?”
― Jorge Luis Borges, Dreamtigers

“Time is the tiger that devours me, but I am that tiger.”
― Jorge Luis Borges

“We accept reality so readily - perhaps because we sense that nothing is real.”
― Jorge Luis Borges

“Man's memory shapes
Its own Eden within”
― Jorge Luis Borges, Dreamtigers

“I thought that a man can be an enemy of other men, of the moments of other men, but not of a country: not of fireflies, words, gardens, streams of water, sunsets.”
― Jorge Luis Borges

“A book is not an isolated being: it is a relationship, an axis of innumerable relationships”
― Jorge Luis Borges, Ficciones

“The dictionary is based on the hypothesis -- obviously an unproven one -- that languages are made up of equivalent synonyms.”
― Jorge Luis Borges

“I think that the reader should enrich what he is reading. He should misunderstand the text; he should change it into something else.”
― Jorge Luis Borges

“It means much to have loved, to have been happy, to have laid my hand on the living Garden, even for a day.”
― Luis Borges

“i walk slowly, like one who comes from so far away he doesn't expect to arrive.”
― Jorge Luis Borges

“I believe that in time we will have reached the point where we will deserve to be free of government.”
― Jorge Luis Borges, Brodie's Report