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 thought that a man can be an enemy of other men, of the moments of other men, but not of a country: not of fireflies, words, gardens, streams of water, sunsets.
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Whoever would undertake some atrocious enterprise should act as if it were already accomplished should impose upon himself a future as irrevocable as the past.
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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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I think most people are more important than their opinions.
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The original is unfaithful to the translation.
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I gazed at every mirror on the planet, not one gave back my reflection.
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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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I believe that in time we will have reached the point where we will deserve to be free of government.
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He was very religious; he believed that he had a secret pact with God which exempted him from doing good in exchange for prayers and piety.
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In all fiction, when a man is faced with alternatives he chooses one at the expense of others.
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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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Art is endless like a river flowing, passing, yet remaining.
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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.
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We have stopped believing in progress. What progress that is !
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To arrange a library is to practice in a quiet and modest way the art of criticism.
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