The dictionary is based on the hypothesis — obviously an unproven one — that languages are made up of equivalent synonyms.
JORGE LUIS BORGESThe task of art is to transform what is continuously happening to us, to transform all of these things into symbols, into music, into something which can last in man’s memory. That is our duty. If we don’t fulfill it, we feel unhappy.
More Jorge Luis Borges Quotes
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Time is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire.
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I walk slowly, like one who comes from so far away he doesn’t expect to arrive.
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What a writer wants to do is not what he does.
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What you really value is what you miss, not what you have.
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Writing long books is a laborious and impoverishing act of foolishness: expanding in five hundred pages an idea that could be perfectly explained in a few minutes. A better procedure is to pretend that those books already exist and to offer a summary, a commentary.
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Time forks perpetually toward innumerable futures.
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I gazed at every mirror on the planet, not one gave back my reflection.
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The sea is an idiom I cannot decipher.
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I had always thought of Paradise / In form and image as a library.
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The flattery of posterity is not worth much more than contemporary flattery, which is worth nothing.
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No one is a poet from eight to twelve and from two to six. Whoever is a poet is one always, and continually assaulted by poetry.
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Beyond my anxiety, beyond this writing, the universe waits, inexhaustible, inviting.
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Being with you and not being with you is the only way I have to measure time.
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When you come right down to it, opinions are the most superficial things about anyone.
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Writing is nothing more than a guided dream.
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