Another school declares that all time has already transpired and that our life is only the crepuscular and no doubt falsified and mutilated memory or reflection of an irrecoverable process.
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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A system is nothing more than the subordination of all aspects of the universe to any one of such aspects.
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In general, every country has the language it deserves.
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Nothing is built on stone; all is built on sand, but we must build as if the sand were stone.
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Beyond my anxiety, beyond this writing, the universe waits, inexhaustible, inviting.
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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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When one confesses to an act, one ceases to be an actor in it and becomes its witness, becomes a man that observes and narrates it and no longer the man that performed it.
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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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If I were asked to name the chief event in my life, I should say my father’s library.
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It also occurred to him that throughout history, humankind has told two stories: the story of a lost ship sailing the Mediterranean seas in quest of a beloved isle, and the story of a god who allows himself to be crucified on Golgotha.
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What you really value is what you miss, not what you have.
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Dictatorships foster oppression, dictatorships foster servitude, dictatorships foster cruelty; more abominable is the fact that they foster idiocy.
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Every man should be capable of all ideas.
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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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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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The Falklands thing was a fight between two bald men over a comb.
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