I have always come to life after coming to books.
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 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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Many of the characters are fools and they’re always playing tricks on me and treating me badly.
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Life itself is a quotation.
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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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So plant your own gardens and decorate your own soul, instead of waiting for someone to bring you flowers.
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My books standing there on the shelf do not know that I have written them.
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I ask of any God, of any gods, that if they give immortality, I hope to be granted oblivion also.
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The heresies we should fear are those which can be confused with orthodoxy.
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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.
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How can we manage to illuminate the pathos of our lives?
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I am not sure that I exist, actually. I am all the writers that I have read, all the people that I have met, all the women that I have loved; all the cities I have visited.
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The word happiness exists in every language; it is plausible the thing itself exists.
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What I’m really concerned about is reaching one person. And that person may be myself for all I know.
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To be immortal is commonplace; except for man, all creatures are immortal, for they are ignorant of death; what is divine, terrible, incomprehensible, is to know that one is immortal.
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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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Man’s memory shapes Its own Eden within.
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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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We accept reality so readily – perhaps because we sense that nothing is real.
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Reality favors symmetry.
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A poet is a discoverer rather than an inventor.
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I believe books will never disappear. It is impossible for it to happen. Of all man’s diverse tools, undoubtedly the most astounding are his books… If books were to disappear, history would disappear. So would man.
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There is an hour of the afternoon when the plain is on the verge of saying something. It never says, or perhaps it says it infinitely, or perhaps we do not understand it, or we understand it and it is untranslatable as music.
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The mightiest love was granted him Love that does not expect to be loved.
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To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.
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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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Nothing is built on stone; all is built on sand, but we must build as if the sand were stone.
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