Time is the substance from which I am made. Time is a river which carries me along, but I am the river; it is a tiger that devours me, but I am the tiger; it is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire.
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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Time forks perpetually toward innumerable futures.
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There is no point in being overwhelmed by the appalling total of human sufferring; such a total does not exist. Neither poverty nor pain is accumulable.
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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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Reality may avoid the obligation to be interesting, but hypotheses may not.
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The word happiness exists in every language; it is plausible the thing itself exists.
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In adultery, there is usually tenderness and self-sacrifice; in murder, courage; in profanation and blasphemy, a certain satanic splendour. Judas elected those offences unvisited by any virtues: abuse of confidence and informing.
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I thought that a man can be an enemy of other men, of the moments of other men, but not of a country: not of fireflies, words, gardens, streams of water, sunsets.
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It’s a shame that we have to choose between two such second-rate countries as the USSR and the USA.
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I suppose identity depends on memory. And if my memory is blotted out, then I wonder if I exist – I mean, if I am the same person. Of course, I don’t have to solve that problem. It’s up to God, if any.
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The Falklands thing was a fight between two bald men over a comb.
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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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Heaven and hell seem out of proportion to me: the actions of men do not deserve so much.
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A writer should have another lifetime to see if he’s appreciated.
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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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A poet is a discoverer rather than an inventor.
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