There is nothing in the world that is not mysterious, but the mystery is more evident in certain things than in others: in the sea, in the eyes of the elders, in the color yellow, and in music.
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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We forget that we are all dead men conversing with dead men.
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Every man should be capable of all ideas.
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It is clear that there is no classification of the Universe that is not arbitrary and full of conjectures. The reason for this is very simple: we do not know what kind of thing the universe is.
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When I write, I do it urged by an intimate necessity. I don’t have in mind an exclusive public, or a public of multitudes, I don’t think in either thing. I think about expressing what I want to say. I try to do it in the simplest way possible.
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Then I reflect that all things happen, happen to one, precisely now. Century follows century, and things happen only in the present. There are countless men in the air, on land and at sea, and all that really happens happens to me.
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Man’s memory shapes Its own Eden within.
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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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May Heaven exist, even if my place is Hell.
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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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The minotaur more than justifies the existence of the labyrinth.
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We accept reality so readily – perhaps because we sense that nothing is real.
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I gazed at every mirror on the planet, not one gave back my reflection.
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The fact is that poetry is not the books in the library. Poetry is the encounter of the reader with the book, the discovery of the book.
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What a writer wants to do is not what he does.
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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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