Time is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire.
JORGE LUIS BORGESI 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.
More Jorge Luis Borges Quotes
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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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A system is nothing more than the subordination of all aspects of the universe to any one of such aspects.
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May Heaven exist, even if my place is Hell.
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There’s no need to build a labyrinth when the entire universe is one.
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The mightiest love was granted him Love that does not expect to be loved.
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The possibilities of the art of combination are not infinite, but they tend to be frightful.
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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 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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When writers die they become books, which is, after all, not too bad an incarnation.
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Do you want to see what human eyes have never seen? Look at the moon. Do you want to hear what ears have never heard? Listen to the bird’s cry. Do you want to touch what hands have never touched? Touch the earth. Verily I say that God is about to create the world.
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A writer should have another lifetime to see if he’s appreciated.
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When I wake up, I wake to something worse. It’s the astonishment of being myself.
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Writing long books is a laborious and impoverishing act of foolishness: expanding in five hundred pages an idea that could be perfectly explained in a few minutes. A better procedure is to pretend that those books already exist and to offer a summary, a commentary.
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Time is the tiger that devours me, but I am that tiger.
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The task of art is to transform what is continuously happening to us, to transform all of these things into symbols, into music, into something which can last in man’s memory. That is our duty. If we don’t fulfill it, we feel unhappy.
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