We have stopped believing in progress. What progress that is !
JORGE LUIS BORGESThe fact is that poetry is not the books in the library. Poetry is the encounter of the reader with the book, the discovery of the book.
More Jorge Luis Borges Quotes
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I have committed the worst of sins one can commit. I have not been happy.
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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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Man’s memory shapes Its own Eden within.
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How can we manage to illuminate the pathos of our lives?
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I walk slowly, like one who comes from so far away he doesn’t expect to arrive.
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The possibilities of the art of combination are not infinite, but they tend to be frightful.
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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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Doubt is one of the names of intelligence.
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From my weakness, I drew strength that never left me.
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Writing is nothing more than a guided dream.
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I had always thought of Paradise / In form and image as a library.
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I have preferred to teach my students not English literature but my love for certain authors, or, even better, certain pages, or even better than that, certain lines. One falls in love with a line, then with a page, then with an author. Well, why not? It is a beautiful process.
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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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Being 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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What you really value is what you miss, not what you have.
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