Time forks perpetually toward innumerable futures.
JORGE LUIS BORGESAll 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.
More Jorge Luis Borges Quotes
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Reality is not always probable, or likely.
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It’s a shame that we have to choose between two such second-rate countries as the USSR and the USA.
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Do you want to see what human eyes have never seen? Look at the moon. Do you want to hear what ears have never heard? Listen to the bird’s cry. Do you want to touch what hands have never touched? Touch the earth. Verily I say that God is about to create the world.
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I cannot sleep unless I am surrounded by books.
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Heaven and hell seem out of proportion to me: the actions of men do not deserve so much.
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A book is not an isolated being: it is a relationship, an axis of innumerable relationships
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For me, beauty is a physical sensation, something we feel with our whole body. It is not the result of judgement. We do not arrive at it by way of rules. We either feel beauty or we don’t.
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In general, every country has the language it deserves.
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Time is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire.
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Reality may avoid the obligation to be interesting, but hypotheses may not.
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To die for a religion is easier than to live it absolutely.
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I have always come to life after coming to books.
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Art is endless like a river flowing, passing, yet remaining.
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Time is the tiger that devours me, but I am that tiger.
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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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