Blindness has not been for me a total misfortune; it should not be seen in a pathetic way. It should be seen as a way of life: one of the styles of living.
JORGE LUIS BORGESThe mind was dreaming. The world was its dream.
More Jorge Luis Borges Quotes
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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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No one is a poet from eight to twelve and from two to six. Whoever is a poet is one always, and continually assaulted by poetry.
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The worst labyrinth is not that intricate form that can entrap us forever, but a single and precise straight line.
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I have preferred to teach my students not English literature but my love for certain authors, or, even better, certain pages, or even better than that, certain lines. One falls in love with a line, then with a page, then with an author. Well, why not? It is a beautiful process.
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When you reach my age, you realize you couldn’t have done things very much better or much worse than you did them in the first place.
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I am almost sure to be blotted out by death, but sometimes I think it is not impossible that I may continue to live in some other manner after my physical death . Or, as Hamlet wonders, what dreams will come when we leave this body?
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I ask of any God, of any gods, that if they give immortality, I hope to be granted oblivion also.
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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.
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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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So plant your own gardens and decorate your own soul, instead of waiting for someone to bring you flowers.
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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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Time, which despoils castles, enriches verses.
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He was very religious; he believed that he had a secret pact with God which exempted him from doing good in exchange for prayers and piety.
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I have committed the worst of sins one can commit. I have not been happy.
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