Creativity is suspended between memory and forgetting.
JORGE LUIS BORGESDo 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.
More Jorge Luis Borges Quotes
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What you really value is what you miss, not what you have.
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Life itself is a quotation.
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The earth we inhabit is an error, an incompetent parody. Mirrors and paternity are abominable because they multiply and affirm it.
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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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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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Happy are the beloved and the lovers and those who can live without love.
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I have committed the worst of sins one can commit. I have not been happy.
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My books standing there on the shelf do not know that I have written them.
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Man’s memory shapes Its own Eden within.
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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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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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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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If I were asked to name the chief event in my life, I should say my father’s library.
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A writer should have another lifetime to see if he’s appreciated.
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Soccer is popular because stupidity is popular.
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