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.
JORGE LUIS BORGESTime is the substance from which I am made. Time is a river which carries me along, but I am the river; it is a tiger that devours me, but I am the tiger; it is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire.
More Jorge Luis Borges Quotes
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I gazed at every mirror on the planet, not one gave back my reflection.
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In general, every country has the language it deserves.
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We forget that we are all dead men conversing with dead men.
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I might accept immortality, if I had to do it. But I would prefer – if there is any afterlife – to know nothing whatever about Borges, about his experiences in this world.
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The future is inevitable and precise, but it may not occur. God lurks in the gaps.
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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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May Heaven exist, even if my place is Hell.
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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.
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Time is the substance from which I am made. Time is a river which carries me along, but I am the river; it is a tiger that devours me, but I am the tiger; it is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire.
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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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In Spanish it is very difficult to make things flow, because words are over-long. But in English, you have light words.
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The truth is that we live out our lives putting off all that can be put off; perhaps we all know deep down that we are immortal and that sooner or later all men will do and know all things.
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The Falklands thing was a fight between two bald men over a comb.
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In my next life I will try to commit more errors.
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Writing is nothing more than a guided dream.
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