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.

JORGE LUIS BORGES

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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.

Jorge Luis Borges

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To say good-bye is to deny separation; it is to say Today we play at going our own ways, but we’ll see each other tomorrow. Men invented farewells because they somehow knew themselves to be immortal, even while seeing themselves as contingent and ephemeral.
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Known Way
Don’t talk unless you can improve the silence.

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Don’t talk unless you can improve the silence.
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Democracy is an abuse of statistics.

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Democracy is an abuse of statistics.
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Poetry remembers that it was an oral art before it was a written art.

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Poetry remembers that it was an oral art before it was a written art.
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The visible universe was an illusion or, more precisely, a sophism. Mirrors and fatherhood are abominable because they multiply it and extend it.

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The visible universe was an illusion or, more precisely, a sophism. Mirrors and fatherhood are abominable because they multiply it and extend it.
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Visible
For me, beauty is a physical sensation, something we feel with our whole body. It is not the result of judgement. We do not arrive at it by way of rules. We either feel beauty or we don’t.

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For me, beauty is a physical sensation, something we feel with our whole body. It is not the result of judgement. We do not arrive at it by way of rules. We either feel beauty or we don’t.
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The word happiness exists in every language; it is plausible the thing itself exists.

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The word happiness exists in every language; it is plausible the thing itself exists.
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Word
You have wakened not out of sleep, but into a prior dream, and that dream lies within another, and so on, to infinity, which is the number of grains of sand. The path that you are to take is endless, and you will die before you have truly awakened.

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You have wakened not out of sleep, but into a prior dream, and that dream lies within another, and so on, to infinity, which is the number of grains of sand. The path that you are to take is endless, and you will die before you have truly awakened.
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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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Creativity is suspended between memory and forgetting.

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Creativity is suspended between memory and forgetting.
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Creativity
Let others pride themselves about how many pages they have written; I’d rather boast about the ones I’ve read.

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Let others pride themselves about how many pages they have written; I’d rather boast about the ones I’ve read.
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Oneself Page
I am not sure that I exist, actually. I am all the writers that I have read, all the people that I have met, all the women that I have loved; all the cities I have visited.

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I am not sure that I exist, actually. I am all the writers that I have read, all the people that I have met, all the women that I have loved; all the cities I have visited.
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The man who acquires an encyclopedia does not thereby acquire every line, every paragraph, every page, and every illustration; he acquires the possibility of becoming familiar with one and another of those things.

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The man who acquires an encyclopedia does not thereby acquire every line, every paragraph, every page, and every illustration; he acquires the possibility of becoming familiar with one and another of those things.
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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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Many of the characters are fools and they’re always playing tricks on me and treating me badly.
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The tango is a direct expression of something that poets have often tried to state in words: the belief that a fight may be a celebration.

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The tango is a direct expression of something that poets have often tried to state in words: the belief that a fight may be a celebration.
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Another school declares that all time has already transpired and that our life is only the crepuscular and no doubt falsified and mutilated memory or reflection of an irrecoverable process.

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Another school declares that all time has already transpired and that our life is only the crepuscular and no doubt falsified and mutilated memory or reflection of an irrecoverable process.
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