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.
JORGE LUIS BORGESI have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.
More Jorge Luis Borges Quotes
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Soccer is popular because stupidity is popular.
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The heresies we should fear are those which can be confused with orthodoxy.
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Poetry remembers that it was an oral art before it was a written art.
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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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A writer’s work is the product of laziness.
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The word happiness exists in every language; it is plausible the thing itself exists.
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Thus my life is a flight and I lose everything and everything belongs to oblivion, or to him.
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In my next life I will try to commit more errors.
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I believe that in time we will have reached the point where we will deserve to be free of government.
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There’s no need to build a labyrinth when the entire universe is one.
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Truth never penetrates an unwilling mind.
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Any life, however long and complicated it may be, actually consists of a single moment — the moment when a man knows forever more who he is.
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From my weakness, I drew strength that never left me.
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Time is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire.
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You can’t measure time by days, the way you measure money by dollars and cents, because dollars are all the same while every day is different and maybe every hour as well.
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