Many of the characters are fools and they’re always playing tricks on me and treating me badly.
JORGE LUIS BORGESThe tango is a direct expression of something that poets have often tried to state in words: the belief that a fight may be a celebration.
More Jorge Luis Borges Quotes
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I have sometimes suspected that the only thing that holds no mystery is happiness, because it is its own justification.
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Every man should be capable of all ideas.
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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 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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There’s no need to build a labyrinth when the entire universe is one.
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The tango is a direct expression of something that poets have often tried to state in words: the belief that a fight may be a celebration.
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A writer needs loneliness, and he gets his share of it. He needs love, and he gets shared and also unshared love. He needs friendship. In fact, he needs the universe. To be a writer is, in a sense, to be a day-dreamer – to be living a kind of double life.
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The word happiness exists in every language; it is plausible the thing itself exists.
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Your unforgivable sins do not allow you to see my splendor.
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A writer’s work is the product of laziness.
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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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I have always come to life after coming to books.
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My undertaking is not difficult, essentially. I should only have to be immortal to carry it out.
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Time is the tiger that devours me, but I am that tiger.
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A writer should have another lifetime to see if he’s appreciated.
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In Spanish it is very difficult to make things flow, because words are over-long. But in English, you have light words.
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Poetry remembers that it was an oral art before it was a written art.
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The future is as irrevocable as an inflexible yesterday.
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No one is anyone, one single immortal man is all men. Like Cornelius Agrippa, I am god, I am hero, I am philosopher, I am demon and I am world, which is a tedious way of saying that I do not exist.
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We have stopped believing in progress. What progress that is !
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When I wake up, I wake to something worse. It’s the astonishment of being myself.
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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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What I’m really concerned about is reaching one person. And that person may be myself for all I know.
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Another school declares that all time has already transpired and that our life is only the crepuscular and no doubt falsified and mutilated memory or reflection of an irrecoverable process.
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The heresies we should fear are those which can be confused with orthodoxy.
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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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