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.
JORGE LUIS BORGESWhile we are asleep in this world, we are awake in another one.
More Jorge Luis Borges Quotes
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The future has no other reality than as present hope, and the past is no more than present memory.
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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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Life itself is a quotation.
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The possibilities of the art of combination are not infinite, but they tend to be frightful.
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We accept reality so readily – perhaps because we sense that nothing is real.
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He consorted with prostitutes and poets and with persons even worse.
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I am not sure that I exist, actually. I am all the writers that I have read, all the people that I have met, all the women that I have loved; all the cities I have visited.
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What a writer wants to do is not what he does.
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Reality favors symmetry.
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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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I think of reading a book as no less an experience than travelling or falling in love.
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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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When I write, I do it urged by an intimate necessity. I don’t have in mind an exclusive public, or a public of multitudes, I don’t think in either thing. I think about expressing what I want to say. I try to do it in the simplest way possible.
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When you come right down to it, opinions are the most superficial things about anyone.
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We have a very precise image – an image at times shameless – of what we have lost, but we are ignorant of what may follow or replace it.
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