Art is endless like a river flowing, passing, yet remaining.
JORGE LUIS BORGESReality is partial to symmetry and slight anachronisms
More Jorge Luis Borges Quotes
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Reality is not always probable, or likely.
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I think that the reader should enrich what he is reading. He should misunderstand the text; he should change it into something else.
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The 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.
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The dictionary is based on the hypothesis — obviously an unproven one — that languages are made up of equivalent synonyms.
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The future is inevitable and precise, but it may not occur. God lurks in the gaps.
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When writers die they become books, which is, after all, not too bad an incarnation.
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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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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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Truth never penetrates an unwilling mind.
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From my weakness, I drew strength that never left me.
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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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A writer should have another lifetime to see if he’s appreciated.
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When I wake up, I wake to something worse. It’s the astonishment of being myself.
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A man sets himself the task of portraying the world. Shortly before he dies he discovers that this patient labyrinth of lines is a drawing of his own face.
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