A writer – and, I believe, generally all persons – must think that whatever happens to him or her is a resource.
JORGE LUIS BORGESThere is an hour of the afternoon when the plain is on the verge of saying something. It never says, or perhaps it says it infinitely, or perhaps we do not understand it, or we understand it and it is untranslatable as music.
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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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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 flattery of posterity is not worth much more than contemporary flattery, which is worth nothing.
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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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I think most people are more important than their opinions.
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I cannot sleep unless I am surrounded by books.
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Thus my life is a flight and I lose everything and everything belongs to oblivion, or to him.
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Time can’t be measured in days the way money is measured in pesos and centavos, because all pesos are equal, while every day, perhaps every hour, is different.
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In general, every country has the language it deserves.
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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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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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Time is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire.
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How can we manage to illuminate the pathos of our lives?
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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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The future is as irrevocable as an inflexible yesterday.
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The minotaur more than justifies the existence of the labyrinth.
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Time is the tiger that devours me, but I am that tiger.
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He thought that the rose was to be found in its own eternity and not in his words; and that we may mention or allude to a thing, but not express it.
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What I’m really concerned about is reaching one person. And that person may be myself for all I know.
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Happy are the beloved and the lovers and those who can live without love.
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It means much to have loved, to have been happy, to have laid my hand on the living Garden, even for a day.
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The Falklands thing was a fight between two bald men over a comb.
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I have sometimes suspected that the only thing that holds no mystery is happiness, because it is its own justification.
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We are our memory, we are that chimerical museum of shifting shapes, that pile of broken mirrors.
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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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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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