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.
JORGE LUIS BORGESThe central fact of my life has been the existence of words and the possibility of weaving those words into poetry.
More Jorge Luis Borges Quotes
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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.
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I might accept immortality, if I had to do it. But I would prefer – if there is any afterlife – to know nothing whatever about Borges, about his experiences in this world.
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Death is just infinity closing in.
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Beyond my anxiety, beyond this writing, the universe waits, inexhaustible, inviting.
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Being with you and not being with you is the only way I have to measure time.
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The truth is that we live out our lives putting off all that can be put off; perhaps we all know deep down that we are immortal and that sooner or later all men will do and know all things.
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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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Only in the present do things happen.
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The future has no other reality than as present hope, and the past is no more than present memory.
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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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Creativity is suspended between memory and forgetting.
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Being an agnostic means all things are possible, even God, even the Holy Trinity. This world is so strange that anything may happen, or may not happen. Being an agnostic makes me live in a larger, a more fantastic kind of world, almost uncanny. It makes me more tolerant.
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My books standing there on the shelf do not know that I have written them.
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A poet is a discoverer rather than an inventor.
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I think of reading a book as no less an experience than travelling or falling in love.
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The sea is an idiom I cannot decipher.
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A writer should have another lifetime to see if he’s appreciated.
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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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He was very religious; he believed that he had a secret pact with God which exempted him from doing good in exchange for prayers and piety.
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Nothing is built on stone; all is built on sand, but we must build as if the sand were stone.
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Poetry remembers that it was an oral art before it was a written art.
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Every man should be capable of all ideas.
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The heresies we should fear are those which can be confused with orthodoxy.
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He consorted with prostitutes and poets and with persons even worse.
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There is nothing in the world that is not mysterious, but the mystery is more evident in certain things than in others: in the sea, in the eyes of the elders, in the color yellow, and in music.
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In my next life I will try to commit more errors.
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