A writer should have another lifetime to see if he’s appreciated.
JORGE LUIS BORGESA 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.
More Jorge Luis Borges Quotes
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I had always thought of Paradise / In form and image as a library.
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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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What I’m really concerned about is reaching one person. And that person may be myself for all I know.
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When writers die they become books, which is, after all, not too bad an incarnation.
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The future has no other reality than as present hope, and the past is no more than present memory.
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If I were asked to name the chief event in my life, I should say my father’s library.
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There’s no need to build a labyrinth when the entire universe is one.
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When you come right down to it, opinions are the most superficial things about anyone.
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Being an agnostic means all things are possible, even God, even the Holy Trinity. This world is so strange that anything may happen, or may not happen. Being an agnostic makes me live in a larger, a more fantastic kind of world, almost uncanny. It makes me more tolerant.
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Time is the substance from which I am made. Time is a river which carries me along, but I am the river; it is a tiger that devours me, but I am the tiger; it is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire.
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We have stopped believing in progress. What progress that is !
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The mightiest love was granted him Love that does not expect to be loved.
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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.
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Truth never penetrates an unwilling mind.
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A system is nothing more than the subordination of all aspects of the universe to any one of such aspects.
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