The task of art is to transform what is continuously happening to us, to transform all of these things into symbols, into music, into something which can last in man’s memory. That is our duty. If we don’t fulfill it, we feel unhappy.
JORGE LUIS BORGESIt means much to have loved, to have been happy, to have laid my hand on the living Garden, even for a day.
More Jorge Luis Borges Quotes
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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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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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The central fact of my life has been the existence of words and the possibility of weaving those words into poetry.
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Every novel is an ideal plane inserted into the realm of reality.
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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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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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Only in the present do things happen.
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Doubt is one of the names of intelligence.
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I might accept immortality, if I had to do it. But I would prefer – if there is any afterlife – to know nothing whatever about Borges, about his experiences in this world.
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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 forget that we are all dead men conversing with dead men.
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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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Creativity is suspended between memory and forgetting.
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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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