I believe books will never disappear. It is impossible for it to happen. Of all man’s diverse tools, undoubtedly the most astounding are his books… If books were to disappear, history would disappear. So would man.
JORGE LUIS BORGESWe are our memory, we are that chimerical museum of shifting shapes, that pile of broken mirrors.
More Jorge Luis Borges Quotes
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I had always thought of Paradise / In form and image as a library.
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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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The earth we inhabit is an error, an incompetent parody. Mirrors and paternity are abominable because they multiply and affirm it.
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A writer needs loneliness, and he gets his share of it. He needs love, and he gets shared and also unshared love. He needs friendship. In fact, he needs the universe. To be a writer is, in a sense, to be a day-dreamer – to be living a kind of double life.
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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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Censorship is the mother of metaphor.
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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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The worst labyrinth is not that intricate form that can entrap us forever, but a single and precise straight line.
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Man’s memory shapes Its own Eden within.
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The heresies we should fear are those which can be confused with orthodoxy.
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So plant your own gardens and decorate your own soul, instead of waiting for someone to bring you flowers.
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The tango is a direct expression of something that poets have often tried to state in words: the belief that a fight may be a celebration.
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For me, beauty is a physical sensation, something we feel with our whole body. It is not the result of judgement. We do not arrive at it by way of rules. We either feel beauty or we don’t.
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What a writer wants to do is not what he does.
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Truth never penetrates an unwilling mind.
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