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.
JORGE LUIS BORGESThe man who acquires an encyclopedia does not thereby acquire every line, every paragraph, every page, and every illustration; he acquires the possibility of becoming familiar with one and another of those things.
More Jorge Luis Borges Quotes
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Happy are the beloved and the lovers and those who can live without love.
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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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Time forks perpetually toward innumerable futures.
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Creativity is suspended between memory and forgetting.
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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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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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I cannot sleep unless I am surrounded by books.
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In adultery, there is usually tenderness and self-sacrifice; in murder, courage; in profanation and blasphemy, a certain satanic splendour. Judas elected those offences unvisited by any virtues: abuse of confidence and informing.
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To arrange a library is to practice in a quiet and modest way the art of criticism.
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Soccer is popular because stupidity is popular.
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From my weakness, I drew strength that never left me.
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When I feel I’m going to write something, then I just am quiet and I try to listen. Then something comes through. And I do what I can in order not to tamper with it.
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I have always come to life after coming to books.
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Doubt is one of the names of intelligence.
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The tango is a direct expression of something that poets have often tried to state in words: the belief that a fight may be a celebration.
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