Art is endless like a river flowing, passing, yet remaining.
JORGE LUIS BORGESReality favors symmetry.
More Jorge Luis Borges Quotes
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Personally, I am a hedonistic reader; I have never read a book merely because it was ancient. I read books for the aesthetic emotions they offer me, and I ignore the commentaries and criticism.
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In our dreams (writes Coleridge) images represent the sensations we think they cause; we do not feel horror because we are threatened by a sphinx; we dream of a sphinx in order to explain the horror we feel.
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Writing is nothing more than a guided dream.
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I believe that in time we will have reached the point where we will deserve to be free of government.
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I have preferred to teach my students not English literature but my love for certain authors, or, even better, certain pages, or even better than that, certain lines. One falls in love with a line, then with a page, then with an author. Well, why not? It is a beautiful process.
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A writer’s work is the product of laziness.
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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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Democracy is an abuse of statistics.
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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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A system is nothing more than the subordination of all aspects of the universe to any one of such aspects.
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To die for a religion is easier than to live it absolutely.
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Being an agnostic means all things are possible, even God, even the Holy Trinity. This world is so strange that anything may happen, or may not happen. Being an agnostic makes me live in a larger, a more fantastic kind of world, almost uncanny. It makes me more tolerant.
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Time is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire.
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What will die with me when I die, what pathetic or fragile form will the world lose?
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While we are asleep in this world, we are awake in another one.
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