A man sets himself the task of portraying the world. Shortly before he dies he discovers that this patient labyrinth of lines is a drawing of his own face.
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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Beyond my anxiety, beyond this writing, the universe waits, inexhaustible, inviting.
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Happy are the beloved and the lovers and those who can live without love.
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When I write, I do it urged by an intimate necessity. I don’t have in mind an exclusive public, or a public of multitudes, I don’t think in either thing. I think about expressing what I want to say. I try to do it in the simplest way possible.
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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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In general, every country has the language it deserves.
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The dictionary is based on the hypothesis — obviously an unproven one — that languages are made up of equivalent synonyms.
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What you really value is what you miss, not what you have.
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Censorship is the mother of metaphor.
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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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Many of the characters are fools and they’re always playing tricks on me and treating me badly.
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The mind was dreaming. The world was its dream.
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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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If I were asked to name the chief event in my life, I should say my father’s library.
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Your unforgivable sins do not allow you to see my splendor.
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It means much to have loved, to have been happy, to have laid my hand on the living Garden, even for a day.
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