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.
JORGE LUIS BORGESThe possibilities of the art of combination are not infinite, but they tend to be frightful.
More Jorge Luis Borges Quotes
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To arrange a library is to practice in a quiet and modest way the art of criticism.
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A system is nothing more than the subordination of all aspects of the universe to any one of such aspects.
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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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Nothing is built on stone; all is built on sand, but we must build as if the sand were stone.
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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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We have stopped believing in progress. What progress that is !
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In my next life I will try to commit more errors.
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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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A writer’s work is the product of laziness.
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Every man should be capable of all ideas.
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Writing is nothing more than a guided dream.
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To say good-bye is to deny separation; it is to say Today we play at going our own ways, but we’ll see each other tomorrow. Men invented farewells because they somehow knew themselves to be immortal, even while seeing themselves as contingent and ephemeral.
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Time, which despoils castles, enriches verses.
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When you reach my age, you realize you couldn’t have done things very much better or much worse than you did them in the first place.
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May Heaven exist, even if my place is Hell.
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