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.
JORGE LUIS BORGESI never reread what I’ve written. I’m far too afraid to feel ashamed of what I’ve done.
More Jorge Luis Borges Quotes
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Soccer is popular because stupidity is popular.
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I do not write for a select minority, which means nothing to me, nor for that adulated platonic entity known as ‘The Masses’. Both abstractions, so dear to the demagogue, I disbelieve in. I write for myself and for my friends, and I write to ease the passing of time.
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I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.
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Poets, like the blind, can see in the dark.
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Another school declares that all time has already transpired and that our life is only the crepuscular and no doubt falsified and mutilated memory or reflection of an irrecoverable process.
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Death is just infinity closing in.
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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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What I’m really concerned about is reaching one person. And that person may be myself for all I know.
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A book is not an isolated being: it is a relationship, an axis of innumerable relationships
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I have sometimes suspected that the only thing that holds no mystery is happiness, because it is its own justification.
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I foresee that man will resign himself each day to new abominations, and soon that only bandits and soldiers will be left.
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I 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.
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I never reread what I’ve written. I’m far too afraid to feel ashamed of what I’ve done.
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Your unforgivable sins do not allow you to see my splendor.
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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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