Chang Tzu tells us of a persevering man who after three laborious years mastered the art of dragon-slaying. For the rest of his days, he had not a single opportunity to test his skills.
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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To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.
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Art is endless like a river flowing, passing, yet remaining.
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Creativity is suspended between memory and forgetting.
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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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I foresee that man will resign himself each day to new abominations, and soon that only bandits and soldiers will be left.
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Poets, like the blind, can see in the dark.
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Man’s memory shapes Its own Eden within.
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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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When I feel I’m going to write something, then I just am quiet and I try to listen. Then something comes through. And I do what I can in order not to tamper with it.
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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 word happiness exists in every language; it is plausible the thing itself exists.
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I am almost sure to be blotted out by death, but sometimes I think it is not impossible that I may continue to live in some other manner after my physical death . Or, as Hamlet wonders, what dreams will come when we leave this body?
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While we are asleep in this world, we are awake in another one.
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We have stopped believing in progress. What progress that is !
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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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