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 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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When I feel I’m going to write something, then I just am quiet and I try to listen. Then something comes through. And I do what I can in order not to tamper with it.
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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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No one is anyone, one single immortal man is all men. Like Cornelius Agrippa, I am god, I am hero, I am philosopher, I am demon and I am world, which is a tedious way of saying that I do not exist.
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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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I gazed at every mirror on the planet, not one gave back my reflection.
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I think most people are more important than their opinions.
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I ask of any God, of any gods, that if they give immortality, I hope to be granted oblivion also.
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A writer should have another lifetime to see if he’s appreciated.
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He consorted with prostitutes and poets and with persons even worse.
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If space is infinite, we may be at any point in space. If time is infinite, we may be at any point in time.
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I think that the reader should enrich what he is reading. He should misunderstand the text; he should change it into something else.
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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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We are our memory, we are that chimerical museum of shifting shapes, that pile of broken mirrors.
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A writer needs loneliness, and he gets his share of it. He needs love, and he gets shared and also unshared love. He needs friendship. In fact, he needs the universe. To be a writer is, in a sense, to be a day-dreamer – to be living a kind of double life.
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A writer – and, I believe, generally all persons – must think that whatever happens to him or her is a resource.
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