All that happens to us, including our humiliations, our misfortunes, our embarrassments, all is given to us as raw material, as clay, so that we may shape our art.
JORGE LUIS BORGESIt’s a shame that we have to choose between two such second-rate countries as the USSR and the USA.
More Jorge Luis Borges Quotes
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The worst labyrinth is not that intricate form that can entrap us forever, but a single and precise straight line.
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One concept corrupts and confuses the others. I am not speaking of the Evil whose limited sphere is ethics; I am speaking of the infinite.
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I have sometimes suspected that the only thing that holds no mystery is happiness, because it is its own justification.
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The earth we inhabit is an error, an incompetent parody. Mirrors and paternity are abominable because they multiply and affirm it.
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He consorted with prostitutes and poets and with persons even worse.
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The future is inevitable and precise, but it may not occur. God lurks in the gaps.
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I believe that in time we will have reached the point where we will deserve to be free of government.
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I had always thought of Paradise / In form and image as a library.
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Your unforgivable sins do not allow you to see my splendor.
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Time, which despoils castles, enriches verses.
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What a writer wants to do is not what he does.
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Man’s memory shapes Its own Eden within.
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I do not write for a select minority, which means nothing to me, nor for that adulated platonic entity known as ‘The Masses’. Both abstractions, so dear to the demagogue, I disbelieve in. I write for myself and for my friends, and I write to ease the passing of time.
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Truth never penetrates an unwilling mind.
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Reality may avoid the obligation to be interesting, but hypotheses may not.
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