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.
JORGE LUIS BORGESThe mind was dreaming. The world was its dream.
More Jorge Luis Borges Quotes
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The mind was dreaming. The world was its dream.
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Reality may avoid the obligation to be interesting, but hypotheses may not.
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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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Any life, however long and complicated it may be, actually consists of a single moment — the moment when a man knows forever more who he is.
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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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I have committed the worst of sins one can commit. I have not been happy.
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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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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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In adultery, there is usually tenderness and self-sacrifice; in murder, courage; in profanation and blasphemy, a certain satanic splendour. Judas elected those offences unvisited by any virtues: abuse of confidence and informing.
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You may win your heart’s desire, but in the end you’re cheated of it by death.
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The future has no other reality than as present hope, and the past is no more than present memory.
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Heaven and hell seem out of proportion to me: the actions of men do not deserve so much.
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The mightiest love was granted him Love that does not expect to be loved.
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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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Each thing implies the universe.
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