How can we manage to illuminate the pathos of our lives?
JORGE LUIS BORGESAll 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.
More Jorge Luis Borges Quotes
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I saw all the mirrors on earth and none of them reflected me.
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Truth never penetrates an unwilling mind.
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When I wake up, I wake to something worse. It’s the astonishment of being myself.
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I think most people are more important than their opinions.
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Man’s memory shapes Its own Eden within.
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To die for a religion is easier than to live it absolutely.
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The things that are said in literature are always the same. What is important is the way they are said.
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I have sometimes suspected that the only thing that holds no mystery is happiness, because it is its own justification.
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The future is inevitable and precise, but it may not occur. God lurks in the gaps.
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I believe that in time we will have reached the point where we will deserve to be free of government.
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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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Every novel is an ideal plane inserted into the realm of reality.
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If space is infinite, we may be at any point in space. If time is infinite, we may be at any point in time.
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The tango is a direct expression of something that poets have often tried to state in words: the belief that a fight may be a celebration.
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We accept reality so readily – perhaps because we sense that nothing is real.
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