Nothing is built on stone; all is built on sand, but we must build as if the sand were stone.
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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While we are asleep in this world, we are awake in another one.
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Death is just infinity closing in.
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Reality may avoid the obligation to be interesting, but hypotheses may not.
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A system is nothing more than the subordination of all aspects of the universe to any one of such aspects.
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The future is inevitable and precise, but it may not occur. God lurks in the gaps.
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We are our memory, we are that chimerical museum of shifting shapes, that pile of broken mirrors.
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I might accept immortality, if I had to do it. But I would prefer – if there is any afterlife – to know nothing whatever about Borges, about his experiences in this world.
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Writing is nothing more than a guided dream.
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The Falklands thing was a fight between two bald men over a comb.
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Truth never penetrates an unwilling mind.
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If I were asked to name the chief event in my life, I should say my father’s library.
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The 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.
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I can give you my loneliness, my darkness, the hunger of my heart, I am trying to bribe you with uncertainty, with danger, with defeat.
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I think most people are more important than their opinions.
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Every man should be capable of all ideas.
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