Heaven and hell seem out of proportion to me: the actions of men do not deserve so much.
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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He was very religious; he believed that he had a secret pact with God which exempted him from doing good in exchange for prayers and piety.
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We have a very precise image – an image at times shameless – of what we have lost, but we are ignorant of what may follow or replace it.
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I cannot sleep unless I am surrounded by books.
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My undertaking is not difficult, essentially. I should only have to be immortal to carry it out.
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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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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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Any life, however long and complicated it may be, actually consists of a single moment — the moment when a man knows forever more who he is.
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Art is endless like a river flowing, passing, yet remaining.
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Reality is partial to symmetry and slight anachronisms
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Chang Tzu tells us of a persevering man who after three laborious years mastered the art of dragon-slaying. For the rest of his days, he had not a single opportunity to test his skills.
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The flattery of posterity is not worth much more than contemporary flattery, which is worth nothing.
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A writer’s work is the product of laziness.
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Reality is not always probable, or likely.
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In my next life I will try to commit more errors.
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When you reach my age, you realize you couldn’t have done things very much better or much worse than you did them in the first place.
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