Famous quotes

Collection of the best phrases and famous quotes from the most prominent authors.

Pierre Bonnard

Pierre Bonnard

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Our senses deceive us or are insufficient when it comes to analysis, observation, and appreciation.

Pierre Bonnard

Pierre Bonnard

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The realization entails the idea that what I know is definitive.

The only ideals worth having are those that you can apply to daily life. And to the world.

Jorge Luis Borges

Jorge Luis Borges

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One is in love when one realizes that another person is unique.

Jorge Luis Borges

Jorge Luis Borges

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I do not speak of revenges nor forgiveness, forgetting is the only revenge and the only forgiveness.

Jorge Luis Borges

Jorge Luis Borges

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I always imagined that Paradise would be some kind of library.

Jorge Luis Borges

Jorge Luis Borges

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I have committed the worst sin one can commit. I have not been happy.

Jorge Luis Borges

Jorge Luis Borges

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Death is a lived life. Life is a coming death.

Jorge Luis Borges

Jorge Luis Borges

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Beauty is that beautiful mystery that neither psychology nor rhetoric can decipher.

Jorge Luis Borges

Jorge Luis Borges

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All theories are legitimate and none of them are important. What matters is what you do with them.

Jorge Luis Borges

Jorge Luis Borges

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Before, distances were greater because space is measured by time.

Jorge Luis Borges

Jorge Luis Borges

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Those who say that art should not propagate doctrines usually refer to doctrines contrary to theirs.