What I’m really concerned about is reaching one person. And that person may be myself for all I know.
JORGE LUIS BORGESThe 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.
More Jorge Luis Borges Quotes
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While we are asleep in this world, we are awake in another one.
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A book is not an isolated being: it is a relationship, an axis of innumerable relationships
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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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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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Reality favors symmetry.
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What you really value is what you miss, not what you have.
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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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I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.
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Dictatorships foster oppression, dictatorships foster servitude, dictatorships foster cruelty; more abominable is the fact that they foster idiocy.
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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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Reality is not always probable, or likely.
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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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I foresee that man will resign himself each day to new abominations, and soon that only bandits and soldiers will be left.
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Democracy is an abuse of statistics.
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From my weakness, I drew strength that never left me.
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