I have always come to life after coming to books.
JORGE LUIS BORGESReality favors symmetry.
More Jorge Luis Borges Quotes
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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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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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There is nothing in the world that is not mysterious, but the mystery is more evident in certain things than in others: in the sea, in the eyes of the elders, in the color yellow, and in music.
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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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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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He thought that the rose was to be found in its own eternity and not in his words; and that we may mention or allude to a thing, but not express it.
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Every man should be capable of all ideas.
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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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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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From my weakness, I drew strength that never left me.
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I have committed the worst of sins one can commit. I have not been happy.
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I had always thought of Paradise / In form and image as a library.
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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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Soccer is popular because stupidity is popular.
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To die for a religion is easier than to live it absolutely.
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When you reach my age, you realize you couldn’t have done things very much better or much worse than you did them in the first place.
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I walk slowly, like one who comes from so far away he doesn’t expect to arrive.
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Do you want to see what human eyes have never seen? Look at the moon. Do you want to hear what ears have never heard? Listen to the bird’s cry. Do you want to touch what hands have never touched? Touch the earth. Verily I say that God is about to create the world.
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The sea is an idiom I cannot decipher.
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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.
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All that happens to us, including our humiliations, our misfortunes, our embarrassments, all is given to us as raw material, as clay, so that we may shape our art.
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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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Let others pride themselves about how many pages they have written; I’d rather boast about the ones I’ve read.
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In general, every country has the language it deserves.
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Loneliness does not worry me; life is difficult enough, putting up with yourself and with your own habits.
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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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