Don’t talk unless you can improve the silence.
JORGE LUIS BORGESI cannot walk through the suburbs in the solitude of the night without thinking that the night pleases us because it suppresses idle details, just as our memory does.
More Jorge Luis Borges Quotes
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We have stopped believing in progress. What progress that is !
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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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Reality favors symmetry.
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Beyond my anxiety, beyond this writing, the universe waits, inexhaustible, inviting.
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How can we manage to illuminate the pathos of our lives?
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Soccer is popular because stupidity is popular.
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I suppose identity depends on memory. And if my memory is blotted out, then I wonder if I exist – I mean, if I am the same person. Of course, I don’t have to solve that problem. It’s up to God, if any.
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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.
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It’s a shame that we have to choose between two such second-rate countries as the USSR and the USA.
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Reality is partial to symmetry and slight anachronisms
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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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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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Dictatorships foster oppression, dictatorships foster servitude, dictatorships foster cruelty; more abominable is the fact that they foster idiocy.
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What a writer wants to do is not what he does.
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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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