May Heaven exist, even if my place is Hell.
JORGE LUIS BORGESHow can we manage to illuminate the pathos of our lives?
More Jorge Luis Borges Quotes
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I think of reading a book as no less an experience than travelling or falling in love.
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Time is the tiger that devours me, but I am that tiger.
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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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Art is very mysterious. I wonder if you can really do any damage to art. I think that when we’re writing, something comes through or should come through, in spite of our theories. So theories are not really important.
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I am not sure that I exist, actually. I am all the writers that I have read, all the people that I have met, all the women that I have loved; all the cities I have visited.
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Poets, like the blind, can see in the dark.
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The possibilities of the art of combination are not infinite, but they tend to be frightful.
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It is clear that there is no classification of the Universe that is not arbitrary and full of conjectures. The reason for this is very simple: we do not know what kind of thing the universe is.
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Time forks perpetually toward innumerable futures.
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Poetry remembers that it was an oral art before it was a written art.
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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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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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The minotaur more than justifies the existence of the labyrinth.
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Being with you and not being with you is the only way I have to measure time.
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A writer’s work is the product of laziness.
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