Many of the characters are fools and they’re always playing tricks on me and treating me badly.
JORGE LUIS BORGESThere is an hour of the afternoon when the plain is on the verge of saying something. It never says, or perhaps it says it infinitely, or perhaps we do not understand it, or we understand it and it is untranslatable as music.
More Jorge Luis Borges Quotes
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The word happiness exists in every language; it is plausible the thing itself exists.
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In general, every country has the language it deserves.
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The heresies we should fear are those which can be confused with orthodoxy.
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Truth never penetrates an unwilling mind.
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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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In our dreams (writes Coleridge) images represent the sensations we think they cause; we do not feel horror because we are threatened by a sphinx; we dream of a sphinx in order to explain the horror we feel.
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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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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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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 believe that in time we will have reached the point where we will deserve to be free of government.
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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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Death is just infinity closing in.
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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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Every novel is an ideal plane inserted into the realm of reality.
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I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.
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