When I wake up, I wake to something worse. It’s the astonishment of being myself.
JORGE LUIS BORGESBeing an agnostic means all things are possible, even God, even the Holy Trinity. This world is so strange that anything may happen, or may not happen. Being an agnostic makes me live in a larger, a more fantastic kind of world, almost uncanny. It makes me more tolerant.
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I saw a sunset in Queretaro that seemed to reflect the color of a rose in Bengal.
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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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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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I cannot sleep unless I am surrounded by books.
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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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The things that are said in literature are always the same. What is important is the way they are said.
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The visible universe was an illusion or, more precisely, a sophism. Mirrors and fatherhood are abominable because they multiply it and extend it.
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The Falklands thing was a fight between two bald men over a comb.
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The central fact of my life has been the existence of words and the possibility of weaving those words into poetry.
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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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The heresies we should fear are those which can be confused with orthodoxy.
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Do you want to see what human eyes have never seen? Look at the moon. Do you want to hear what ears have never heard? Listen to the bird’s cry. Do you want to touch what hands have never touched? Touch the earth. Verily I say that God is about to create the world.
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There’s no need to build a labyrinth when the entire universe is one.
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Everything touches everything.
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Beyond my anxiety, beyond this writing, the universe waits, inexhaustible, inviting.
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In Spanish it is very difficult to make things flow, because words are over-long. But in English, you have light words.
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Time forks perpetually toward innumerable futures.
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Many of the characters are fools and they’re always playing tricks on me and treating me badly.
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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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Writing long books is a laborious and impoverishing act of foolishness: expanding in five hundred pages an idea that could be perfectly explained in a few minutes. A better procedure is to pretend that those books already exist and to offer a summary, a commentary.
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The minotaur more than justifies the existence of the labyrinth.
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I think that the reader should enrich what he is reading. He should misunderstand the text; he should change it into something else.
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Every novel is an ideal plane inserted into the realm of reality.
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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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Reality favors symmetry.
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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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