We have stopped believing in progress. What progress that is !
JORGE LUIS BORGESMy books standing there on the shelf do not know that I have written them.
More Jorge Luis Borges Quotes
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Time, which despoils castles, enriches verses.
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All 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.
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I might accept immortality, if I had to do it. But I would prefer – if there is any afterlife – to know nothing whatever about Borges, about his experiences in this world.
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Poetry remembers that it was an oral art before it was a written art.
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Time forks perpetually toward innumerable futures.
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The future is as irrevocable as an inflexible yesterday.
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I would rather like to think of God as being a kind of adventurer – even as Wells thought about him – or perhaps as something within us making for some unknown purpose.
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Personally, I am a hedonistic reader; I have never read a book merely because it was ancient. I read books for the aesthetic emotions they offer me, and I ignore the commentaries and criticism.
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Time is the tiger that devours me, but I am that tiger.
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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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To arrange a library is to practice in a quiet and modest way the art of criticism.
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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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Death is just infinity closing in.
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What a writer wants to do is not what he does.
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Art is endless like a river flowing, passing, yet remaining.
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Another school declares that all time has already transpired and that our life is only the crepuscular and no doubt falsified and mutilated memory or reflection of an irrecoverable process.
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I have always come to life after coming to books.
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Every novel is an ideal plane inserted into the realm of reality.
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We accept reality so readily – perhaps because we sense that nothing is real.
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I walk slowly, like one who comes from so far away he doesn’t expect to arrive.
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The dictionary is based on the hypothesis — obviously an unproven one — that languages are made up of equivalent synonyms.
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From my weakness, I drew strength that never left me.
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Loneliness does not worry me; life is difficult enough, putting up with yourself and with your own habits.
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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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The future is inevitable and precise, but it may not occur. God lurks in the gaps.
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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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