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.
JORGE LUIS BORGESArt 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.
More Jorge Luis Borges Quotes
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Writing is nothing more than a guided dream.
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To say good-bye is to deny separation; it is to say Today we play at going our own ways, but we’ll see each other tomorrow. Men invented farewells because they somehow knew themselves to be immortal, even while seeing themselves as contingent and ephemeral.
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Reality is not always probable, or likely.
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Time forks perpetually toward innumerable futures.
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I am not sure of anything, I know nothing. Can you imagine that I don’t even know the date of my own death?
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What I’m really concerned about is reaching one person. And that person may be myself for all I know.
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Each thing implies the universe.
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For me, beauty is a physical sensation, something we feel with our whole body. It is not the result of judgement. We do not arrive at it by way of rules. We either feel beauty or we don’t.
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Every man should be capable of all ideas.
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I had always thought of Paradise / In form and image as a library.
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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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I cannot sleep unless I am surrounded by books.
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I ask of any God, of any gods, that if they give immortality, I hope to be granted oblivion also.
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You may win your heart’s desire, but in the end you’re cheated of it by death.
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My books standing there on the shelf do not know that I have written them.
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The visible universe was an illusion or, more precisely, a sophism. Mirrors and fatherhood are abominable because they multiply it and extend it.
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The fact is that poetry is not the books in the library. Poetry is the encounter of the reader with the book, the discovery of the book.
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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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The future is inevitable and precise, but it may not occur. God lurks in the gaps.
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You can’t measure time by days, the way you measure money by dollars and cents, because dollars are all the same while every day is different and maybe every hour as well.
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The original is unfaithful to the translation.
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To die for a religion is easier than to live it absolutely.
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Poetry remembers that it was an oral art before it was a written art.
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In all fiction, when a man is faced with alternatives he chooses one at the expense of others.
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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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You have wakened not out of sleep, but into a prior dream, and that dream lies within another, and so on, to infinity, which is the number of grains of sand. The path that you are to take is endless, and you will die before you have truly awakened.
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