What will die with me when I die, what pathetic or fragile form will the world lose?
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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The heresies we should fear are those which can be confused with orthodoxy.
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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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The dictionary is based on the hypothesis — obviously an unproven one — that languages are made up of equivalent synonyms.
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What I’m really concerned about is reaching one person. And that person may be myself for all I know.
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Life itself is a quotation.
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Films are even stranger, for what we are seeing are not disguised people but photographs of disguised people, and yet we believe them while the film is being shown.
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Time is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire.
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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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Only in the present do things happen.
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Reality is partial to symmetry and slight anachronisms
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May Heaven exist, even if my place is Hell.
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I think of reading a book as no less an experience than travelling or falling in love.
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We have stopped believing in progress. What progress that is !
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If space is infinite, we may be at any point in space. If time is infinite, we may be at any point in time.
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You may win your heart’s desire, but in the end you’re cheated of it by death.
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