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 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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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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Time forks perpetually toward innumerable futures.
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My books standing there on the shelf do not know that I have written them.
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Reality may avoid the obligation to be interesting, but hypotheses may not.
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In my next life I will try to commit more errors.
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He consorted with prostitutes and poets and with persons even worse.
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In Spanish it is very difficult to make things flow, because words are over-long. But in English, you have light words.
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Being with you and not being with you is the only way I have to measure time.
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Life itself is a quotation.
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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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Every novel is an ideal plane inserted into the realm of reality.
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Soccer is popular because stupidity is popular.
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I have committed the worst of sins one can commit. I have not been happy.
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I never reread what I’ve written. I’m far too afraid to feel ashamed of what I’ve done.
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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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