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 BORGESFrom my weakness, I drew strength that never left me.
More Jorge Luis Borges Quotes
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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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Life itself is a quotation.
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I do not write for a select minority, which means nothing to me, nor for that adulated platonic entity known as ‘The Masses’. Both abstractions, so dear to the demagogue, I disbelieve in. I write for myself and for my friends, and I write to ease the passing of time.
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What will die with me when I die, what pathetic or fragile form will the world lose?
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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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We have a very precise image – an image at times shameless – of what we have lost, but we are ignorant of what may follow or replace it.
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Reality favors symmetry.
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I believe books will never disappear. It is impossible for it to happen. Of all man’s diverse tools, undoubtedly the most astounding are his books… If books were to disappear, history would disappear. So would man.
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May Heaven exist, even if my place is Hell.
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When I wake up, I wake to something worse. It’s the astonishment of being myself.
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Creativity is suspended between memory and forgetting.
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Perhaps the apparent favor of the universe is no more than the crocodile grin of a Doberman breathing hard and about to be hungry?
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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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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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To arrange a library is to practice in a quiet and modest way the art of criticism.
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