Films are even stranger, for what we are seeing are not disguised people but photographs of disguised people, and yet we believe them while the film is being shown.
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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I am not sure of anything, I know nothing. Can you imagine that I don’t even know the date of my own death?
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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 have committed the worst of sins one can commit. I have not been happy.
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Only in the present do things happen.
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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 is an hour of the afternoon when the plain is on the verge of saying something. It never says, or perhaps it says it infinitely, or perhaps we do not understand it, or we understand it and it is untranslatable as music.
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Poets, like the blind, can see in the dark.
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I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.
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From my weakness, I drew strength that never left me.
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I have preferred to teach my students not English literature but my love for certain authors, or, even better, certain pages, or even better than that, certain lines. One falls in love with a line, then with a page, then with an author. Well, why not? It is a beautiful process.
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We have stopped believing in progress. What progress that is !
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Heaven and hell seem out of proportion to me: the actions of men do not deserve so much.
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Reality is partial to symmetry and slight anachronisms
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The original is unfaithful to the translation.
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Happy are the beloved and the lovers and those who can live without love.
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