Time can’t be measured in days the way money is measured in pesos and centavos, because all pesos are equal, while every day, perhaps every hour, is different.
JORGE LUIS BORGESThe heresies we should fear are those which can be confused with orthodoxy.
More Jorge Luis Borges Quotes
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I think most people are more important than their opinions.
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Israelites, Christians and Muslims profess immortality, but the veneration they render this world proves they believe only in it, since they destine all other worlds, in infinite number, to be its reward or punishment.
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Reality favors symmetry.
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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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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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A writer should have another lifetime to see if he’s appreciated.
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I saw all the mirrors on earth and none of them reflected me.
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Poetry remembers that it was an oral art before it was a written art.
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Man’s memory shapes Its own Eden within.
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Personally, I am a hedonistic reader; I have never read a book merely because it was ancient. I read books for the aesthetic emotions they offer me, and I ignore the commentaries and criticism.
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The earth we inhabit is an error, an incompetent parody. Mirrors and paternity are abominable because they multiply and affirm it.
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The task of art is to transform what is continuously happening to us, to transform all of these things into symbols, into music, into something which can last in man’s memory. That is our duty. If we don’t fulfill it, we feel unhappy.
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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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Your unforgivable sins do not allow you to see my splendor.
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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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