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 BORGESThe visible universe was an illusion or, more precisely, a sophism. Mirrors and fatherhood are abominable because they multiply it and extend it.
More Jorge Luis Borges Quotes
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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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There’s no need to build a labyrinth when the entire universe is one.
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The earth we inhabit is an error, an incompetent parody. Mirrors and paternity are abominable because they multiply and affirm it.
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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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What I’m really concerned about is reaching one person. And that person may be myself for all I know.
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We have stopped believing in progress. What progress that is !
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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 accept reality so readily – perhaps because we sense that nothing is real.
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To be immortal is commonplace; except for man, all creatures are immortal, for they are ignorant of death; what is divine, terrible, incomprehensible, is to know that one is immortal.
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Every novel is an ideal plane inserted into the realm of reality.
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It’s a shame that we have to choose between two such second-rate countries as the USSR and the USA.
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Writing is nothing more than a guided dream.
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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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I might accept immortality, if I had to do it. But I would prefer – if there is any afterlife – to know nothing whatever about Borges, about his experiences in this world.
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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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