No one is a poet from eight to twelve and from two to six. Whoever is a poet is one always, and continually assaulted by poetry.
JORGE LUIS BORGESI suppose identity depends on memory. And if my memory is blotted out, then I wonder if I exist – I mean, if I am the same person. Of course, I don’t have to solve that problem. It’s up to God, if any.
More Jorge Luis Borges Quotes
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Art is endless like a river flowing, passing, yet remaining.
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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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I saw a sunset in Queretaro that seemed to reflect the color of a rose in Bengal.
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Everything touches everything.
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I saw all the mirrors on earth and none of them reflected me.
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There is no point in being overwhelmed by the appalling total of human sufferring; such a total does not exist. Neither poverty nor pain is accumulable.
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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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My books standing there on the shelf do not know that I have written them.
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Soccer is popular because stupidity is popular.
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Writing is nothing more than a guided dream.
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Poets, like the blind, can see in the dark.
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Nothing is built on stone; all is built on sand, but we must build as if the sand were stone.
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When you come right down to it, opinions are the most superficial things about anyone.
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Whoever would undertake some atrocious enterprise should act as if it were already accomplished should impose upon himself a future as irrevocable as the past.
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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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