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.
JORGE LUIS BORGESEvery novel is an ideal plane inserted into the realm of reality.
More Jorge Luis Borges Quotes
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What you really value is what you miss, not what you have.
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Man’s memory shapes Its own Eden within.
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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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You may win your heart’s desire, but in the end you’re cheated of it by death.
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He consorted with prostitutes and poets and with persons even worse.
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The future has no other reality than as present hope, and the past is no more than present memory.
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I believe books will never disappear. It is impossible for it to happen. Of all man’s diverse tools, undoubtedly the most astounding are his books… If books were to disappear, history would disappear. So would man.
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Time forks perpetually toward innumerable futures.
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How can we manage to illuminate the pathos of our lives?
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When you come right down to it, opinions are the most superficial things about anyone.
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I saw all the mirrors on earth and none of them reflected me.
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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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Perhaps the apparent favor of the universe is no more than the crocodile grin of a Doberman breathing hard and about to be hungry?
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It also occurred to him that throughout history, humankind has told two stories: the story of a lost ship sailing the Mediterranean seas in quest of a beloved isle, and the story of a god who allows himself to be crucified on Golgotha.
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Beyond my anxiety, beyond this writing, the universe waits, inexhaustible, inviting.
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