A writer – and, I believe, generally all persons – must think that whatever happens to him or her is a resource.
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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A poet is a discoverer rather than an inventor.
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I saw a sunset in Queretaro that seemed to reflect the color of a rose in Bengal.
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Life itself is a quotation.
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While we are asleep in this world, we are awake in another one.
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Time is the substance from which I am made. Time is a river which carries me along, but I am the river; it is a tiger that devours me, but I am the tiger; it is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire.
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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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Any life, however long and complicated it may be, actually consists of a single moment — the moment when a man knows forever more who he is.
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For me, beauty is a physical sensation, something we feel with our whole body. It is not the result of judgement. We do not arrive at it by way of rules. We either feel beauty or we don’t.
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I 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.
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Then I reflect that all things happen, happen to one, precisely now. Century follows century, and things happen only in the present. There are countless men in the air, on land and at sea, and all that really happens happens to me.
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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 mightiest love was granted him Love that does not expect to be loved.
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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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It is clear that there is no classification of the Universe that is not arbitrary and full of conjectures. The reason for this is very simple: we do not know what kind of thing the universe is.
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In Spanish it is very difficult to make things flow, because words are over-long. But in English, you have light words.
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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 heresies we should fear are those which can be confused with orthodoxy.
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One concept corrupts and confuses the others. I am not speaking of the Evil whose limited sphere is ethics; I am speaking of the infinite.
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You may win your heart’s desire, but in the end you’re cheated of it by death.
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I saw all the mirrors on earth and none of them reflected me.
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Art is endless like a river flowing, passing, yet remaining.
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I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.
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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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Time is the tiger that devours me, but I am that tiger.
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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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I have committed the worst of sins one can commit. I have not been happy.
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