May Heaven exist, even if my place is Hell.
JORGE LUIS BORGESI 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.
More Jorge Luis Borges Quotes
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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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It is clear that there is no classification of the Universe that is not arbitrary and full of conjectures. The reason for this is very simple: we do not know what kind of thing the universe is.
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Dictatorships foster oppression, dictatorships foster servitude, dictatorships foster cruelty; more abominable is the fact that they foster idiocy.
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To be immortal is commonplace; except for man, all creatures are immortal, for they are ignorant of death; what is divine, terrible, incomprehensible, is to know that one is immortal.
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You may win your heart’s desire, but in the end you’re cheated of it by death.
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Time is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire.
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My books standing there on the shelf do not know that I have written them.
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While we are asleep in this world, we are awake in another one.
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My undertaking is not difficult, essentially. I should only have to be immortal to carry it out.
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I suppose identity depends on memory. And if my memory is blotted out, then I wonder if I exist – I mean, if I am the same person. Of course, I don’t have to solve that problem. It’s up to God, if any.
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It means much to have loved, to have been happy, to have laid my hand on the living Garden, even for a day.
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I might accept immortality, if I had to do it. But I would prefer – if there is any afterlife – to know nothing whatever about Borges, about his experiences in this world.
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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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A writer’s work is the product of laziness.
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Writing is nothing more than a guided dream.
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