We have a very precise image – an image at times shameless – of what we have lost, but we are ignorant of what may follow or replace it.
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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I have always come to life after coming to books.
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Time is the tiger that devours me, but I am that tiger.
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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.
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I suppose identity depends on memory. And if my memory is blotted out, then I wonder if I exist – I mean, if I am the same person. Of course, I don’t have to solve that problem. It’s up to God, if any.
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Then I reflect that all things happen, happen to one, precisely now. Century follows century, and things happen only in the present. There are countless men in the air, on land and at sea, and all that really happens happens to me.
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May Heaven exist, even if my place is Hell.
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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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While we are asleep in this world, we are awake in another one.
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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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Don’t talk unless you can improve the silence.
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Democracy is an abuse of statistics.
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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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I saw a sunset in Queretaro that seemed to reflect the color of a rose in Bengal.
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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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The heresies we should fear are those which can be confused with orthodoxy.
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