To arrange a library is to practice in a quiet and modest way the art of criticism.
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 mind was dreaming. The world was its dream.
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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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The word happiness exists in every language; it is plausible the thing itself exists.
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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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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 have sometimes suspected that the only thing that holds no mystery is happiness, because it is its own justification.
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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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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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A poet is a discoverer rather than an inventor.
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The minotaur more than justifies the existence of the labyrinth.
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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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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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Democracy is an abuse of statistics.
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Only in the present do things happen.
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Many of the characters are fools and they’re always playing tricks on me and treating me badly.
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