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 BORGESWe are our memory, we are that chimerical museum of shifting shapes, that pile of broken mirrors.
More Jorge Luis Borges Quotes
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How can we manage to illuminate the pathos of our lives?
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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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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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The flattery of posterity is not worth much more than contemporary flattery, which is worth nothing.
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I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.
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Only in the present do things happen.
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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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My books standing there on the shelf do not know that I have written them.
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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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If I were asked to name the chief event in my life, I should say my father’s library.
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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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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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We have stopped believing in progress. What progress that is !
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Whoever would undertake some atrocious enterprise should act as if it were already accomplished should impose upon himself a future as irrevocable as the past.
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I cannot walk through the suburbs in the solitude of the night without thinking that the night pleases us because it suppresses idle details, just as our memory does.
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