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.
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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I walk slowly, like one who comes from so far away he doesn’t expect to arrive.
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Democracy is an abuse of statistics.
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He thought that the rose was to be found in its own eternity and not in his words; and that we may mention or allude to a thing, but not express it.
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The mind was dreaming. The world was its dream.
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We forget that we are all dead men conversing with dead men.
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I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.
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I saw a sunset in Queretaro that seemed to reflect the color of a rose in Bengal.
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Personally, I am a hedonistic reader; I have never read a book merely because it was ancient. I read books for the aesthetic emotions they offer me, and I ignore the commentaries and criticism.
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A system is nothing more than the subordination of all aspects of the universe to any one of such aspects.
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Blindness has not been for me a total misfortune; it should not be seen in a pathetic way. It should be seen as a way of life: one of the styles of living.
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No one is a poet from eight to twelve and from two to six. Whoever is a poet is one always, and continually assaulted by poetry.
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Reality is partial to symmetry and slight anachronisms
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What a writer wants to do is not what he does.
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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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Beyond my anxiety, beyond this writing, the universe waits, inexhaustible, inviting.
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