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.
JORGE LUIS BORGESPoets, like the blind, can see in the dark.
More Jorge Luis Borges Quotes
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The minotaur more than justifies the existence of the labyrinth.
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Chang Tzu tells us of a persevering man who after three laborious years mastered the art of dragon-slaying. For the rest of his days, he had not a single opportunity to test his skills.
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The future is inevitable and precise, but it may not occur. God lurks in the gaps.
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The mind was dreaming. The world was its dream.
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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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The worst labyrinth is not that intricate form that can entrap us forever, but a single and precise straight line.
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A writer should have another lifetime to see if he’s appreciated.
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I am almost sure to be blotted out by death, but sometimes I think it is not impossible that I may continue to live in some other manner after my physical death . Or, as Hamlet wonders, what dreams will come when we leave this body?
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What you really value is what you miss, not what you have.
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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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I had always thought of Paradise / In form and image as a library.
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To die for a religion is easier than to live it absolutely.
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The word happiness exists in every language; it is plausible the thing itself exists.
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My books standing there on the shelf do not know that I have written them.
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In adultery, there is usually tenderness and self-sacrifice; in murder, courage; in profanation and blasphemy, a certain satanic splendour. Judas elected those offences unvisited by any virtues: abuse of confidence and informing.
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