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.
JORGE LUIS BORGESTo be immortal is commonplace; except for man, all creatures are immortal, for they are ignorant of death; what is divine, terrible, incomprehensible, is to know that one is immortal.
More Jorge Luis Borges Quotes
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A poet is a discoverer rather than an inventor.
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To be immortal is commonplace; except for man, all creatures are immortal, for they are ignorant of death; what is divine, terrible, incomprehensible, is to know that one is immortal.
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No one is a poet from eight to twelve and from two to six. Whoever is a poet is one always, and continually assaulted by poetry.
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The possibilities of the art of combination are not infinite, but they tend to be frightful.
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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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Israelites, Christians and Muslims profess immortality, but the veneration they render this world proves they believe only in it, since they destine all other worlds, in infinite number, to be its reward or punishment.
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I had always thought of Paradise / In form and image as a library.
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I have always come to life after coming to books.
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I never reread what I’ve written. I’m far too afraid to feel ashamed of what I’ve done.
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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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We forget that we are all dead men conversing with dead men.
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I would rather like to think of God as being a kind of adventurer – even as Wells thought about him – or perhaps as something within us making for some unknown purpose.
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In my next life I will try to commit more errors.
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The truth is that we live out our lives putting off all that can be put off; perhaps we all know deep down that we are immortal and that sooner or later all men will do and know all things.
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