A writer – and, I believe, generally all persons – must think that whatever happens to him or her is a resource.
JORGE LUIS BORGESI believe that in time we will have reached the point where we will deserve to be free of government.
More Jorge Luis Borges Quotes
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Nothing is built on stone; all is built on sand, but we must build as if the sand were stone.
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Every novel is an ideal plane inserted into the realm of reality.
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Art is endless like a river flowing, passing, yet remaining.
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I saw a sunset in Queretaro that seemed to reflect the color of a rose in Bengal.
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There is an hour of the afternoon when the plain is on the verge of saying something. It never says, or perhaps it says it infinitely, or perhaps we do not understand it, or we understand it and it is untranslatable as music.
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The dictionary is based on the hypothesis — obviously an unproven one — that languages are made up of equivalent synonyms.
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Poetry remembers that it was an oral art before it was a written art.
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Art is very mysterious. I wonder if you can really do any damage to art. I think that when we’re writing, something comes through or should come through, in spite of our theories. So theories are not really important.
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Creativity is suspended between memory and forgetting.
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The heresies we should fear are those which can be confused with orthodoxy.
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I suppose identity depends on memory. And if my memory is blotted out, then I wonder if I exist – I mean, if I am the same person. Of course, I don’t have to solve that problem. It’s up to God, if any.
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I saw all the mirrors on earth and none of them reflected me.
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In my next life I will try to commit more errors.
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The mightiest love was granted him Love that does not expect to be loved.
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We forget that we are all dead men conversing with dead men.
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