To die for a religion is easier than to live it absolutely.
JORGE LUIS BORGESTime is the tiger that devours me, but I am that tiger.
More Jorge Luis Borges Quotes
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Reality favors symmetry.
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The sea is an idiom I cannot decipher.
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My books standing there on the shelf do not know that I have written them.
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Then I reflect that all things happen, happen to one, precisely now. Century follows century, and things happen only in the present. There are countless men in the air, on land and at sea, and all that really happens happens to me.
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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 suppose identity depends on memory. And if my memory is blotted out, then I wonder if I exist – I mean, if I am the same person. Of course, I don’t have to solve that problem. It’s up to God, if any.
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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 word happiness exists in every language; it is plausible the thing itself exists.
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The central fact of my life has been the existence of words and the possibility of weaving those words into poetry.
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There’s no need to build a labyrinth when the entire universe is one.
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Every man should be capable of all ideas.
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All 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.
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Poetry remembers that it was an oral art before it was a written art.
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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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The future is inevitable and precise, but it may not occur. God lurks in the gaps.
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