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.
JORGE LUIS BORGESEach thing implies the universe.
More Jorge Luis Borges Quotes
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How can we manage to illuminate the pathos of our lives?
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Each thing implies the universe.
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Reality favors symmetry.
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There is an hour of the afternoon when the plain is on the verge of saying something. It never says, or perhaps it says it infinitely, or perhaps we do not understand it, or we understand it and it is untranslatable as music.
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Doubt is one of the names of intelligence.
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I thought that a man can be an enemy of other men, of the moments of other men, but not of a country: not of fireflies, words, gardens, streams of water, sunsets.
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Time is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire.
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A writer should have another lifetime to see if he’s appreciated.
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My books standing there on the shelf do not know that I have written them.
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One concept corrupts and confuses the others. I am not speaking of the Evil whose limited sphere is ethics; I am speaking of the infinite.
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I cannot sleep unless I am surrounded by books.
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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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Happy are the beloved and the lovers and those who can live without love.
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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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Art is endless like a river flowing, passing, yet remaining.
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