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.
JORGE LUIS BORGESPoets, like the blind, can see in the dark.
More Jorge Luis Borges Quotes
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Every novel is an ideal plane inserted into the realm of reality.
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Poetry remembers that it was an oral art before it was a written art.
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In Spanish it is very difficult to make things flow, because words are over-long. But in English, you have light words.
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I have preferred to teach my students not English literature but my love for certain authors, or, even better, certain pages, or even better than that, certain lines. One falls in love with a line, then with a page, then with an author. Well, why not? It is a beautiful process.
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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.
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So plant your own gardens and decorate your own soul, instead of waiting for someone to bring you flowers.
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The original is unfaithful to the translation.
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I believe books will never disappear. It is impossible for it to happen. Of all man’s diverse tools, undoubtedly the most astounding are his books… If books were to disappear, history would disappear. So would man.
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When writers die they become books, which is, after all, not too bad an incarnation.
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When I wake up, I wake to something worse. It’s the astonishment of being myself.
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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 think of reading a book as no less an experience than travelling or falling in love.
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Blindness has not been for me a total misfortune; it should not be seen in a pathetic way. It should be seen as a way of life: one of the styles of living.
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May Heaven exist, even if my place is Hell.
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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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