The future has no other reality than as present hope, and the past is no more than present memory.
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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To arrange a library is to practice in a quiet and modest way the art of criticism.
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I had always thought of Paradise / In form and image as a library.
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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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Poets, like the blind, can see in the dark.
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Loneliness does not worry me; life is difficult enough, putting up with yourself and with your own habits.
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Reality favors symmetry.
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A writer’s work is the product of laziness.
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Death is just infinity closing in.
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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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If I were asked to name the chief event in my life, I should say my father’s library.
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Democracy is an abuse of statistics.
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A writer should have another lifetime to see if he’s appreciated.
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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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Doubt is one of the names of intelligence.
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A poet is a discoverer rather than an inventor.
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