I had always thought of Paradise / In form and image as a library.
JORGE LUIS BORGESWe forget that we are all dead men conversing with dead men.
More Jorge Luis Borges Quotes
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I have preferred to teach my students not English literature but my love for certain authors, or, even better, certain pages, or even better than that, certain lines. One falls in love with a line, then with a page, then with an author. Well, why not? It is a beautiful process.
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When I write, I do it urged by an intimate necessity. I don’t have in mind an exclusive public, or a public of multitudes, I don’t think in either thing. I think about expressing what I want to say. I try to do it in the simplest way possible.
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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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When you come right down to it, opinions are the most superficial things about anyone.
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Poetry remembers that it was an oral art before it was a written art.
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The fact is that poetry is not the books in the library. Poetry is the encounter of the reader with the book, the discovery of the book.
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We forget that we are all dead men conversing with dead men.
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Everything touches everything.
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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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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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The sea is an idiom I cannot decipher.
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Blindness has not been for me a total misfortune; it should not be seen in a pathetic way. It should be seen as a way of life: one of the styles of living.
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What will die with me when I die, what pathetic or fragile form will the world lose?
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I cannot sleep unless I am surrounded by books.
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From my weakness, I drew strength that never left me.
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