Poets, like the blind, can see in the dark.
JORGE LUIS BORGESThe heresies we should fear are those which can be confused with orthodoxy.
More Jorge Luis Borges Quotes
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Thus my life is a flight and I lose everything and everything belongs to oblivion, or to him.
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I think that the reader should enrich what he is reading. He should misunderstand the text; he should change it into something else.
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No one is a poet from eight to twelve and from two to six. Whoever is a poet is one always, and continually assaulted by poetry.
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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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Life itself is a quotation.
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Another school declares that all time has already transpired and that our life is only the crepuscular and no doubt falsified and mutilated memory or reflection of an irrecoverable process.
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Loneliness does not worry me; life is difficult enough, putting up with yourself and with your own habits.
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I would rather like to think of God as being a kind of adventurer – even as Wells thought about him – or perhaps as something within us making for some unknown purpose.
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I am not sure that I exist, actually. I am all the writers that I have read, all the people that I have met, all the women that I have loved; all the cities I have visited.
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From my weakness, I drew strength that never left me.
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When writers die they become books, which is, after all, not too bad an incarnation.
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I foresee that man will resign himself each day to new abominations, and soon that only bandits and soldiers will be left.
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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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A writer – and, I believe, generally all persons – must think that whatever happens to him or her is a resource.
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Man’s memory shapes Its own Eden within.
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Beyond my anxiety, beyond this writing, the universe waits, inexhaustible, inviting.
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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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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.
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I am almost sure to be blotted out by death, but sometimes I think it is not impossible that I may continue to live in some other manner after my physical death . Or, as Hamlet wonders, what dreams will come when we leave this body?
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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 have always come to life after coming to books.
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The minotaur more than justifies the existence of the labyrinth.
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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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The heresies we should fear are those which can be confused with orthodoxy.
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Truth never penetrates an unwilling mind.
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