When I write, I do it urged by an intimate necessity. I don’t have in mind an exclusive public, or a public of multitudes, I don’t think in either thing. I think about expressing what I want to say. I try to do it in the simplest way possible.
JORGE LUIS BORGESArt is endless like a river flowing, passing, yet remaining.
More Jorge Luis Borges Quotes
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The future is inevitable and precise, but it may not occur. God lurks in the gaps.
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I have committed the worst of sins one can commit. I have not been happy.
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We forget that we are all dead men conversing with dead men.
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So plant your own gardens and decorate your own soul, instead of waiting for someone to bring you flowers.
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Dictatorships foster oppression, dictatorships foster servitude, dictatorships foster cruelty; more abominable is the fact that they foster idiocy.
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In all fiction, when a man is faced with alternatives he chooses one at the expense of others.
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Soccer is popular because stupidity is popular.
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We accept reality so readily – perhaps because we sense that nothing is real.
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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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Heaven and hell seem out of proportion to me: the actions of men do not deserve so much.
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Time is the substance from which I am made. Time is a river which carries me along, but I am the river; it is a tiger that devours me, but I am the tiger; it is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire.
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Nothing is built on stone; all is built on sand, but we must build as if the sand were stone.
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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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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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To arrange a library is to practice in a quiet and modest way the art of criticism.
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