Do you want to see what human eyes have never seen? Look at the moon. Do you want to hear what ears have never heard? Listen to the bird’s cry. Do you want to touch what hands have never touched? Touch the earth. Verily I say that God is about to create the world.
JORGE LUIS BORGESI have always come to life after coming to books.
More Jorge Luis Borges Quotes
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Many of the characters are fools and they’re always playing tricks on me and treating me badly.
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Happy are the beloved and the lovers and those who can live without love.
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Reality is partial to symmetry and slight anachronisms
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The heresies we should fear are those which can be confused with orthodoxy.
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Soccer is popular because stupidity is popular.
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I cannot walk through the suburbs in the solitude of the night without thinking that the night pleases us because it suppresses idle details, just as our memory does.
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What you really value is what you miss, not what you have.
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My undertaking is not difficult, essentially. I should only have to be immortal to carry it out.
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Creativity is suspended between memory and forgetting.
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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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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.
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The dictionary is based on the hypothesis — obviously an unproven one — that languages are made up of equivalent synonyms.
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For me, beauty is a physical sensation, something we feel with our whole body. It is not the result of judgement. We do not arrive at it by way of rules. We either feel beauty or we don’t.
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The flattery of posterity is not worth much more than contemporary flattery, which is worth nothing.
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A writer – and, I believe, generally all persons – must think that whatever happens to him or her is a resource.
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