I can give you my loneliness, my darkness, the hunger of my heart, I am trying to bribe you with uncertainty, with danger, with defeat.
JORGE LUIS BORGESA system is nothing more than the subordination of all aspects of the universe to any one of such aspects.
More Jorge Luis Borges Quotes
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I think that the reader should enrich what he is reading. He should misunderstand the text; he should change it into something else.
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It is clear that there is no classification of the Universe that is not arbitrary and full of conjectures. The reason for this is very simple: we do not know what kind of thing the universe is.
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A writer should have another lifetime to see if he’s appreciated.
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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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I cannot sleep unless I am surrounded by books.
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Soccer is popular because stupidity is popular.
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I have always come to life after coming to books.
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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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The task of art is to transform what is continuously happening to us, to transform all of these things into symbols, into music, into something which can last in man’s memory. That is our duty. If we don’t fulfill it, we feel unhappy.
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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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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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There’s no need to build a labyrinth when the entire universe is one.
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If space is infinite, we may be at any point in space. If time is infinite, we may be at any point in time.
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Censorship is the mother of metaphor.
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A man sets himself the task of portraying the world. Shortly before he dies he discovers that this patient labyrinth of lines is a drawing of his own face.
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