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 BORGESThe things that are said in literature are always the same. What is important is the way they are said.
More Jorge Luis Borges Quotes
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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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Many of the characters are fools and they’re always playing tricks on me and treating me badly.
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A book is not an isolated being: it is a relationship, an axis of innumerable relationships
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Perhaps the apparent favor of the universe is no more than the crocodile grin of a Doberman breathing hard and about to be hungry?
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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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I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.
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Poetry remembers that it was an oral art before it was a written art.
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To say good-bye is to deny separation; it is to say Today we play at going our own ways, but we’ll see each other tomorrow. Men invented farewells because they somehow knew themselves to be immortal, even while seeing themselves as contingent and ephemeral.
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I am not sure of anything, I know nothing. Can you imagine that I don’t even know the date of my own death?
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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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The heresies we should fear are those which can be confused with orthodoxy.
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We are our memory, we are that chimerical museum of shifting shapes, that pile of broken mirrors.
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Each thing implies the universe.
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Personally, I am a hedonistic reader; I have never read a book merely because it was ancient. I read books for the aesthetic emotions they offer me, and I ignore the commentaries and criticism.
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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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