I am not sure that I exist, actually. I am all the writers that I have read, all the people that I have met, all the women that I have loved; all the cities I have visited.
JORGE LUIS BORGESWhen I wake up, I wake to something worse. It’s the astonishment of being myself.
More Jorge Luis Borges Quotes
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To die for a religion is easier than to live it absolutely.
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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 minotaur more than justifies the existence of the labyrinth.
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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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A writer should have another lifetime to see if he’s appreciated.
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When I wake up, I wake to something worse. It’s the astonishment of being myself.
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My books standing there on the shelf do not know that I have written them.
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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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Art is endless like a river flowing, passing, yet remaining.
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You have wakened not out of sleep, but into a prior dream, and that dream lies within another, and so on, to infinity, which is the number of grains of sand. The path that you are to take is endless, and you will die before you have truly awakened.
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Reality may avoid the obligation to be interesting, but hypotheses may not.
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What you really value is what you miss, not what you have.
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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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I saw all the mirrors on earth and none of them reflected me.
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How can we manage to illuminate the pathos of our lives?
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