Man’s memory shapes Its own Eden within.
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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The possibilities of the art of combination are not infinite, but they tend to be frightful.
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When writers die they become books, which is, after all, not too bad an incarnation.
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I saw all the mirrors on earth and none of them reflected me.
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Time can’t be measured in days the way money is measured in pesos and centavos, because all pesos are equal, while every day, perhaps every hour, is different.
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A poet is a discoverer rather than an inventor.
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Reality is partial to symmetry and slight anachronisms
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The minotaur more than justifies the existence of the labyrinth.
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To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.
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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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Reality favors symmetry.
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Soccer is popular because stupidity is popular.
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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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Art is very mysterious. I wonder if you can really do any damage to art. I think that when we’re writing, something comes through or should come through, in spite of our theories. So theories are not really important.
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In my next life I will try to commit more errors.
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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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No one is a poet from eight to twelve and from two to six. Whoever is a poet is one always, and continually assaulted by poetry.
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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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Whoever would undertake some atrocious enterprise should act as if it were already accomplished should impose upon himself a future as irrevocable as the past.
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Time is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire.
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Don’t talk unless you can improve the silence.
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Let others pride themselves about how many pages they have written; I’d rather boast about the ones I’ve read.
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Censorship is the mother of metaphor.
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Democracy is an abuse of statistics.
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My books standing there on the shelf do not know that I have written them.
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When one confesses to an act, one ceases to be an actor in it and becomes its witness, becomes a man that observes and narrates it and no longer the man that performed it.
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Truth never penetrates an unwilling mind.
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