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 BORGESThe heresies we should fear are those which can be confused with orthodoxy.
More Jorge Luis Borges Quotes
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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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Creativity is suspended between memory and forgetting.
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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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Time is the tiger that devours me, but I am that tiger.
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I think most people are more important than their opinions.
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Time forks perpetually toward innumerable futures.
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Any life, however long and complicated it may be, actually consists of a single moment — the moment when a man knows forever more who he is.
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We forget that we are all dead men conversing with dead men.
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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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The things that are said in literature are always the same. What is important is the way they are said.
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Being with you and not being with you is the only way I have to measure time.
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You have wakened not out of sleep, but into a prior dream, and that dream lies within another, and so on, to infinity, which is the number of grains of sand. The path that you are to take is endless, and you will die before you have truly awakened.
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A poet is a discoverer rather than an inventor.
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While we are asleep in this world, we are awake in another one.
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Then I reflect that all things happen, happen to one, precisely now. Century follows century, and things happen only in the present. There are countless men in the air, on land and at sea, and all that really happens happens to me.
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