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 BORGESDictatorships foster oppression, dictatorships foster servitude, dictatorships foster cruelty; more abominable is the fact that they foster idiocy.
More Jorge Luis Borges Quotes
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I have preferred to teach my students not English literature but my love for certain authors, or, even better, certain pages, or even better than that, certain lines. One falls in love with a line, then with a page, then with an author. Well, why not? It is a beautiful process.
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I think most people are more important than their opinions.
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Reality may avoid the obligation to be interesting, but hypotheses may not.
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I cannot walk through the suburbs in the solitude of the night without thinking that the night pleases us because it suppresses idle details, just as our memory does.
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Writing is nothing more than a guided dream.
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The visible universe was an illusion or, more precisely, a sophism. Mirrors and fatherhood are abominable because they multiply it and extend it.
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Creativity is suspended between memory and forgetting.
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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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Time is the tiger that devours me, but I am that tiger.
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Life itself is a quotation.
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Personally, I am a hedonistic reader; I have never read a book merely because it was ancient. I read books for the aesthetic emotions they offer me, and I ignore the commentaries and criticism.
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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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Beyond my anxiety, beyond this writing, the universe waits, inexhaustible, inviting.
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My books standing there on the shelf do not know that I have written them.
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I am almost sure to be blotted out by death, but sometimes I think it is not impossible that I may continue to live in some other manner after my physical death . Or, as Hamlet wonders, what dreams will come when we leave this body?
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