Blindness has not been for me a total misfortune; it should not be seen in a pathetic way. It should be seen as a way of life: one of the styles of living.
JORGE LUIS BORGESThere’s no need to build a labyrinth when the entire universe is one.
More Jorge Luis Borges Quotes
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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 saw a sunset in Queretaro that seemed to reflect the color of a rose in Bengal.
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A poet is a discoverer rather than an inventor.
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Democracy is an abuse of statistics.
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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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I think most people are more important than their opinions.
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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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No one is a poet from eight to twelve and from two to six. Whoever is a poet is one always, and continually assaulted by poetry.
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In my next life I will try to commit more errors.
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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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I believe that in time we will have reached the point where we will deserve to be free of government.
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I can give you my loneliness, my darkness, the hunger of my heart, I am trying to bribe you with uncertainty, with danger, with defeat.
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When I wake up, I wake to something worse. It’s the astonishment of being myself.
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I had always thought of Paradise / In form and image as a library.
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