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.
JORGE LUIS BORGESI do not write for a select minority, which means nothing to me, nor for that adulated platonic entity known as ‘The Masses’. Both abstractions, so dear to the demagogue, I disbelieve in. I write for myself and for my friends, and I write to ease the passing of time.
More Jorge Luis Borges Quotes
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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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We accept reality so readily – perhaps because we sense that nothing is real.
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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.
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The future is as irrevocable as an inflexible yesterday.
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Heaven and hell seem out of proportion to me: the actions of men do not deserve so much.
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It means much to have loved, to have been happy, to have laid my hand on the living Garden, even for a day.
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I think that the reader should enrich what he is reading. He should misunderstand the text; he should change it into something else.
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He consorted with prostitutes and poets and with persons even worse.
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I had always thought of Paradise / In form and image as a library.
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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 cannot walk through the suburbs in the solitude of the night without thinking that the night pleases us because it suppresses idle details, just as our memory does.
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Beyond my anxiety, beyond this writing, the universe waits, inexhaustible, inviting.
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In all fiction, when a man is faced with alternatives he chooses one at the expense of others.
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I saw all the mirrors on earth and none of them reflected me.
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Censorship is the mother of metaphor.
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