When I feel I’m going to write something, then I just am quiet and I try to listen. Then something comes through. And I do what I can in order not to tamper with it.
JORGE LUIS BORGESNothing is built on stone; all is built on sand, but we must build as if the sand were stone.
More Jorge Luis Borges Quotes
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How can we manage to illuminate the pathos of our lives?
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Each thing implies the universe.
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There is no point in being overwhelmed by the appalling total of human sufferring; such a total does not exist. Neither poverty nor pain is accumulable.
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I have sometimes suspected that the only thing that holds no mystery is happiness, because it is its own justification.
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I think most people are more important than their opinions.
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No one is a poet from eight to twelve and from two to six. Whoever is a poet is one always, and continually assaulted by poetry.
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I cannot sleep unless I am surrounded by books.
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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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From my weakness, I drew strength that never left me.
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The sea is an idiom I cannot decipher.
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Man’s memory shapes Its own Eden within.
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When writers die they become books, which is, after all, not too bad an incarnation.
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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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We accept reality so readily – perhaps because we sense that nothing is real.
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It also occurred to him that throughout history, humankind has told two stories: the story of a lost ship sailing the Mediterranean seas in quest of a beloved isle, and the story of a god who allows himself to be crucified on Golgotha.
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