I foresee that man will resign himself each day to new abominations, and soon that only bandits and soldiers will be left.
JORGE LUIS BORGESA writer needs loneliness, and he gets his share of it. He needs love, and he gets shared and also unshared love. He needs friendship. In fact, he needs the universe. To be a writer is, in a sense, to be a day-dreamer – to be living a kind of double life.
More Jorge Luis Borges Quotes
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There is no point in being overwhelmed by the appalling total of human sufferring; such a total does not exist. Neither poverty nor pain is accumulable.
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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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How can we manage to illuminate the pathos of our lives?
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Many of the characters are fools and they’re always playing tricks on me and treating me badly.
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From my weakness, I drew strength that never left me.
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Each thing implies the universe.
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The truth is that we live out our lives putting off all that can be put off; perhaps we all know deep down that we are immortal and that sooner or later all men will do and know all things.
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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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We have stopped believing in progress. What progress that is !
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All that happens to us, including our humiliations, our misfortunes, our embarrassments, all is given to us as raw material, as clay, so that we may shape our art.
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We accept reality so readily – perhaps because we sense that nothing is real.
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Time is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire.
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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 believe that in time we will have reached the point where we will deserve to be free of government.
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