Do you want to see what human eyes have never seen? Look at the moon. Do you want to hear what ears have never heard? Listen to the bird’s cry. Do you want to touch what hands have never touched? Touch the earth. Verily I say that God is about to create the world.
JORGE LUIS BORGESArt is very mysterious. I wonder if you can really do any damage to art. I think that when we’re writing, something comes through or should come through, in spite of our theories. So theories are not really important.
More Jorge Luis Borges Quotes
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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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When I wake up, I wake to something worse. It’s the astonishment of being myself.
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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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I saw all the mirrors on earth and none of them reflected me.
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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 Falklands thing was a fight between two bald men over a comb.
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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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We accept reality so readily – perhaps because we sense that nothing is real.
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A writer – and, I believe, generally all persons – must think that whatever happens to him or her is a resource.
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A writer needs loneliness, and he gets his share of it. He needs love, and he gets shared and also unshared love. He needs friendship. In fact, he needs the universe. To be a writer is, in a sense, to be a day-dreamer – to be living a kind of double life.
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Doubt is one of the names of intelligence.
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Reality favors symmetry.
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The original is unfaithful to the translation.
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Death is just infinity closing in.
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The future has no other reality than as present hope, and the past is no more than present memory.
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