“To rise by others' fall
I deem a losing gain;
All states with others' ruins built
To ruin run amain.”
Source: Content and Rich, Line 57; p. 59.
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“often these women marry or they are ruined some other way.”
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Women As Lovers (1994)
“Prostrate the beauteous ruin lies; and all
That shared its shelter perish in its fall.”
The Poetry of the Anti-Jacobin, No. xxxvi, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
“From the ruins of a collapsing cause, the dust of recriminations always rises.”
“Being in Love means being willing to ruin yourself for the other person.”
Source: As Consciousness is Harnessed to Flesh: Journals and Notebooks, 1964-1980
“All men that are ruined, are ruined on the side of their natural propensities.”
No. 1, volume v, p. 286
Letters On a Regicide Peace (1796)
“Running away
From the window of a classroom,
Alone,
I lay down among the ruins of a castle.”
Source: Modern Japanese Literature, ed. Donald Keene (New York: Grove Press, 1960), p. 208
On Exactitude in Science, as translated by Andrew Hurley, in Jorge Luis Borges, Collected Fictions (1999); first published in Los Anales de Buenos Aires, año 1, no. 3 (March 1946)
Context: In that Empire, the Art of Cartography attained such Perfection that the map of a single Province occupied the entirety of a City, and the map of the Empire, the entirety of a Province. In time, those Unconscionable Maps no longer satisfied, and the Cartographers Guilds struck a Map of the Empire whose size was that of the Empire, and which coincided point for point with it. The following Generations, who were not so fond of the Study of Cartography as their Forebears had been, saw that that vast Map was Useless, and not without some Pitilessness was it, that they delivered it up to the Inclemencies of Sun and Winters. In the Deserts of the West, still today, there are Tattered Ruins of that Map, inhabited by Animals and Beggars; in all the Land there is no other Relic of the Disciplines of Geography.<!