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.
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.
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There is no point in being overwhelmed by the appalling total of human sufferring; such a total does not exist. Neither poverty nor pain is accumulable.
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Writing is nothing more than a guided dream.
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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 word happiness exists in every language; it is plausible the thing itself exists.
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I think that the reader should enrich what he is reading. He should misunderstand the text; he should change it into something else.
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Life itself is a quotation.
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In our dreams (writes Coleridge) images represent the sensations we think they cause; we do not feel horror because we are threatened by a sphinx; we dream of a sphinx in order to explain the horror we feel.
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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 believe that in time we will have reached the point where we will deserve to be free of government.
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I gazed at every mirror on the planet, not one gave back my reflection.
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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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In my next life I will try to commit more errors.
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Thus my life is a flight and I lose everything and everything belongs to oblivion, or to him.
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There’s no need to build a labyrinth when the entire universe is one.
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I have always come to life after coming to books.
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