What you really value is what you miss, not what you have.
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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Only in the present do things happen.
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Personally, I am a hedonistic reader; I have never read a book merely because it was ancient. I read books for the aesthetic emotions they offer me, and I ignore the commentaries and criticism.
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My books standing there on the shelf do not know that I have written them.
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One concept corrupts and confuses the others. I am not speaking of the Evil whose limited sphere is ethics; I am speaking of the infinite.
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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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In all fiction, when a man is faced with alternatives he chooses one at the expense of others.
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When one confesses to an act, one ceases to be an actor in it and becomes its witness, becomes a man that observes and narrates it and no longer the man that performed it.
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It’s a shame that we have to choose between two such second-rate countries as the USSR and the USA.
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Blindness has not been for me a total misfortune; it should not be seen in a pathetic way. It should be seen as a way of life: one of the styles of living.
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The Falklands thing was a fight between two bald men over a comb.
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Creativity is suspended between memory and forgetting.
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I think that the reader should enrich what he is reading. He should misunderstand the text; he should change it into something else.
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To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.
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Art 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.
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The heresies we should fear are those which can be confused with orthodoxy.
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