My undertaking is not difficult, essentially. I should only have to be immortal to carry it out.
JORGE LUIS BORGESThe fact is that poetry is not the books in the library. Poetry is the encounter of the reader with the book, the discovery of the book.
More Jorge Luis Borges Quotes
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To die for a religion is easier than to live it absolutely.
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Whoever would undertake some atrocious enterprise should act as if it were already accomplished should impose upon himself a future as irrevocable as the past.
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Chang Tzu tells us of a persevering man who after three laborious years mastered the art of dragon-slaying. For the rest of his days, he had not a single opportunity to test his skills.
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Censorship is the mother of metaphor.
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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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Poetry remembers that it was an oral art before it was a written art.
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Reality is partial to symmetry and slight anachronisms
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The original is unfaithful to the translation.
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Writing long books is a laborious and impoverishing act of foolishness: expanding in five hundred pages an idea that could be perfectly explained in a few minutes. A better procedure is to pretend that those books already exist and to offer a summary, a commentary.
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The future is inevitable and precise, but it may not occur. God lurks in the gaps.
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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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My books standing there on the shelf do not know that I have written them.
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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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How can we manage to illuminate the pathos of our lives?
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Soccer is popular because stupidity is popular.
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