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 BORGESAnother school declares that all time has already transpired and that our life is only the crepuscular and no doubt falsified and mutilated memory or reflection of an irrecoverable process.
More Jorge Luis Borges Quotes
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Let others pride themselves about how many pages they have written; I’d rather boast about the ones I’ve read.
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The Falklands thing was a fight between two bald men over a comb.
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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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Poetry remembers that it was an oral art before it was a written art.
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There is no point in being overwhelmed by the appalling total of human sufferring; such a total does not exist. Neither poverty nor pain is accumulable.
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I am not sure that I exist, actually. I am all the writers that I have read, all the people that I have met, all the women that I have loved; all the cities I have visited.
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Time, which despoils castles, enriches verses.
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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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We are our memory, we are that chimerical museum of shifting shapes, that pile of broken mirrors.
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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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What I’m really concerned about is reaching one person. And that person may be myself for all I know.
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I saw a sunset in Queretaro that seemed to reflect the color of a rose in Bengal.
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You have wakened not out of sleep, but into a prior dream, and that dream lies within another, and so on, to infinity, which is the number of grains of sand. The path that you are to take is endless, and you will die before you have truly awakened.
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Another school declares that all time has already transpired and that our life is only the crepuscular and no doubt falsified and mutilated memory or reflection of an irrecoverable process.
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While we are asleep in this world, we are awake in another one.
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