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 BORGESIsraelites, Christians and Muslims profess immortality, but the veneration they render this world proves they believe only in it, since they destine all other worlds, in infinite number, to be its reward or punishment.
More Jorge Luis Borges Quotes
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In my next life I will try to commit more errors.
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What a writer wants to do is not what he does.
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I can give you my loneliness, my darkness, the hunger of my heart, I am trying to bribe you with uncertainty, with danger, with defeat.
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I have always come to life after coming to books.
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Life itself is a quotation.
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Israelites, Christians and Muslims profess immortality, but the veneration they render this world proves they believe only in it, since they destine all other worlds, in infinite number, to be its reward or punishment.
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Happy are the beloved and the lovers and those who can live without love.
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A writer needs loneliness, and he gets his share of it. He needs love, and he gets shared and also unshared love. He needs friendship. In fact, he needs the universe. To be a writer is, in a sense, to be a day-dreamer – to be living a kind of double life.
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The minotaur more than justifies the existence of the labyrinth.
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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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Writing long books is a laborious and impoverishing act of foolishness: expanding in five hundred pages an idea that could be perfectly explained in a few minutes. A better procedure is to pretend that those books already exist and to offer a summary, a commentary.
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The word happiness exists in every language; it is plausible the thing itself exists.
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Being with you and not being with you is the only way I have to measure time.
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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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The future is as irrevocable as an inflexible yesterday.
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