A man sets himself the task of portraying the world. Shortly before he dies he discovers that this patient labyrinth of lines is a drawing of his own face.
JORGE LUIS BORGESWe have a very precise image – an image at times shameless – of what we have lost, but we are ignorant of what may follow or replace it.
More Jorge Luis Borges Quotes
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Writing long books is a laborious and impoverishing act of foolishness: expanding in five hundred pages an idea that could be perfectly explained in a few minutes. A better procedure is to pretend that those books already exist and to offer a summary, a commentary.
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The fact is that poetry is not the books in the library. Poetry is the encounter of the reader with the book, the discovery of the book.
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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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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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To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.
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Life itself is a quotation.
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We have stopped believing in progress. What progress that is !
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We forget that we are all dead men conversing with dead men.
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It means much to have loved, to have been happy, to have laid my hand on the living Garden, even for a day.
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Israelites, Christians and Muslims profess immortality, but the veneration they render this world proves they believe only in it, since they destine all other worlds, in infinite number, to be its reward or punishment.
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Time is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire.
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The minotaur more than justifies the existence of the labyrinth.
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Time, which despoils castles, enriches verses.
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Democracy is an abuse of statistics.
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Your unforgivable sins do not allow you to see my splendor.
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