Every novel is an ideal plane inserted into the realm of reality.
JORGE LUIS BORGESTime is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire.
More Jorge Luis Borges Quotes
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Time is the substance from which I am made. Time is a river which carries me along, but I am the river; it is a tiger that devours me, but I am the tiger; it is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire.
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You have wakened not out of sleep, but into a prior dream, and that dream lies within another, and so on, to infinity, which is the number of grains of sand. The path that you are to take is endless, and you will die before you have truly awakened.
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May Heaven exist, even if my place is Hell.
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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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Creativity is suspended between memory and forgetting.
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Another school declares that all time has already transpired and that our life is only the crepuscular and no doubt falsified and mutilated memory or reflection of an irrecoverable process.
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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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The mind was dreaming. The world was its dream.
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Writing is nothing more than a guided dream.
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I believe that in time we will have reached the point where we will deserve to be free of government.
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I cannot walk through the suburbs in the solitude of the night without thinking that the night pleases us because it suppresses idle details, just as our memory does.
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I cannot sleep unless I am surrounded by books.
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He thought that the rose was to be found in its own eternity and not in his words; and that we may mention or allude to a thing, but not express it.
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Personally, I am a hedonistic reader; I have never read a book merely because it was ancient. I read books for the aesthetic emotions they offer me, and I ignore the commentaries and criticism.
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When writers die they become books, which is, after all, not too bad an incarnation.
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Being with you and not being with you is the only way I have to measure time.
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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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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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In general, every country has the language it deserves.
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My undertaking is not difficult, essentially. I should only have to be immortal to carry it out.
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There’s no need to build a labyrinth when the entire universe is one.
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Reality may avoid the obligation to be interesting, but hypotheses may not.
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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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The things that are said in literature are always the same. What is important is the way they are said.
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I think most people are more important than their opinions.
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A book is not an isolated being: it is a relationship, an axis of innumerable relationships
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