A poet is a discoverer rather than an inventor.
JORGE LUIS BORGESThe mind was dreaming. The world was its dream.
More Jorge Luis Borges Quotes
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I can give you my loneliness, my darkness, the hunger of my heart, I am trying to bribe you with uncertainty, with danger, with defeat.
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Soccer is popular because stupidity is popular.
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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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I believe books will never disappear. It is impossible for it to happen. Of all man’s diverse tools, undoubtedly the most astounding are his books… If books were to disappear, history would disappear. So would man.
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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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May Heaven exist, even if my place is Hell.
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While we are asleep in this world, we are awake in another one.
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We forget that we are all dead men conversing with dead men.
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Poets, like the blind, can see in the dark.
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A writer should have another lifetime to see if he’s appreciated.
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Beyond my anxiety, beyond this writing, the universe waits, inexhaustible, inviting.
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The heresies we should fear are those which can be confused with orthodoxy.
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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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Art is very mysterious. I wonder if you can really do any damage to art. I think that when we’re writing, something comes through or should come through, in spite of our theories. So theories are not really important.
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What you really value is what you miss, not what you have.
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In adultery, there is usually tenderness and self-sacrifice; in murder, courage; in profanation and blasphemy, a certain satanic splendour. Judas elected those offences unvisited by any virtues: abuse of confidence and informing.
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In all fiction, when a man is faced with alternatives he chooses one at the expense of others.
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A writer – and, I believe, generally all persons – must think that whatever happens to him or her is a resource.
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I think most people are more important than their opinions.
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Don’t talk unless you can improve the silence.
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Films are even stranger, for what we are seeing are not disguised people but photographs of disguised people, and yet we believe them while the film is being shown.
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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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Let others pride themselves about how many pages they have written; I’d rather boast about the ones I’ve read.
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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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I am not sure of anything, I know nothing. Can you imagine that I don’t even know the date of my own death?
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