I have sometimes suspected that the only thing that holds no mystery is happiness, because it is its own justification.
JORGE LUIS BORGESAny 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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There is nothing in the world that is not mysterious, but the mystery is more evident in certain things than in others: in the sea, in the eyes of the elders, in the color yellow, and in music.
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He consorted with prostitutes and poets and with persons even worse.
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The flattery of posterity is not worth much more than contemporary flattery, which is worth nothing.
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The heresies we should fear are those which can be confused with orthodoxy.
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A poet is a discoverer rather than an inventor.
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Blindness has not been for me a total misfortune; it should not be seen in a pathetic way. It should be seen as a way of life: one of the styles of living.
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In our dreams (writes Coleridge) images represent the sensations we think they cause; we do not feel horror because we are threatened by a sphinx; we dream of a sphinx in order to explain the horror we feel.
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I saw all the mirrors on earth and none of them reflected me.
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You can’t measure time by days, the way you measure money by dollars and cents, because dollars are all the same while every day is different and maybe every hour as well.
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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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While we are asleep in this world, we are awake in another one.
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When writers die they become books, which is, after all, not too bad an incarnation.
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Creativity is suspended between memory and forgetting.
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I gazed at every mirror on the planet, not one gave back my reflection.
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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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If space is infinite, we may be at any point in space. If time is infinite, we may be at any point in time.
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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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Dictatorships foster oppression, dictatorships foster servitude, dictatorships foster cruelty; more abominable is the fact that they foster idiocy.
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Writing is nothing more than a guided dream.
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Poets, like the blind, can see in the dark.
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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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In general, every country has the language it deserves.
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Art is endless like a river flowing, passing, yet remaining.
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In adultery, there is usually tenderness and self-sacrifice; in murder, courage; in profanation and blasphemy, a certain satanic splendour. Judas elected those offences unvisited by any virtues: abuse of confidence and informing.
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I believe books will never disappear. It is impossible for it to happen. Of all man’s diverse tools, undoubtedly the most astounding are his books… If books were to disappear, history would disappear. So would man.
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How can we manage to illuminate the pathos of our lives?
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