I am not sure that I exist, actually. I am all the writers that I have read, all the people that I have met, all the women that I have loved; all the cities I have visited.
JORGE LUIS BORGESPerhaps the apparent favor of the universe is no more than the crocodile grin of a Doberman breathing hard and about to be hungry?
More Jorge Luis Borges Quotes
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The task of art is to transform what is continuously happening to us, to transform all of these things into symbols, into music, into something which can last in man’s memory. That is our duty. If we don’t fulfill it, we feel unhappy.
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I cannot walk through the suburbs in the solitude of the night without thinking that the night pleases us because it suppresses idle details, just as our memory does.
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The future is as irrevocable as an inflexible yesterday.
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Each thing implies the universe.
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Perhaps the apparent favor of the universe is no more than the crocodile grin of a Doberman breathing hard and about to be hungry?
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To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.
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Art is endless like a river flowing, passing, yet remaining.
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How can we manage to illuminate the pathos of our lives?
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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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What a writer wants to do is not what he does.
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I think most people are more important than their opinions.
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I have always come to life after coming to books.
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There’s no need to build a labyrinth when the entire universe is one.
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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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