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Jorge Luis Borges Quote: “The word must have been in the beginning a magic symbol, which the usury of time wore out. The mission of the poet should be to restore to the word, at least in a partial way, its primitive and now secret force. All verse should have two obligations: to communicate a precise instance and to touch us physically, as the presence of the sea does.”
Jorge Luis Borges Quote: “Happy is he who forgives others and who forgives himself.”
Jorge Luis Borges Quote: “What a writer wants to do is not what he does.”
Jorge Luis Borges Quote: “Gradual blindness is not a tragedy. It’s like a slow summer dusk.”
Jorge Luis Borges Quote: “Reality is not always probable, or likely. But if you’re writing a story, you have to make it as plausible as you can, because if not, the reader’s imagination will reject it.”
Jorge Luis Borges Quote: “Reality is partial to symmetry and slight anachronisms.”
Jorge Luis Borges Quote: “Once I am dead, there will be no lack of pious hands to throw me over the railing; my grave will be the fathomless air; my body will sink endlessly and decay and dissolve in the wind generated by the fall, which is infinite.”
Jorge Luis Borges Quote: “That imminence of a revelation that is not yet produced, is perhaps the aesthetic reality.”
Jorge Luis Borges Quote: “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.”
Jorge Luis Borges Quote: “Felices los amados y los amantes y los que pueden prescindir del amor. Felices los felices.”
Jorge Luis Borges Quote: “To be immortal is commonplace; except for man, all creatures are immortal, for they are ignorant of death; what is divine, terrible, incomprehensible, is to know that one is immortal.”
Jorge Luis Borges Quote: “Besides, rereading, not reading, is what counts.”
Jorge Luis Borges Quote: “Personally, I am a hedonistic reader; I have never read a book merely because it was ancient. I read books for the aesthetic emotions they offer me, and I ignore the commentaries and criticism.”
Jorge Luis Borges Quote: “Thus my life is a flight and I lose everything and everything belongs to oblivion, or to him.”
Jorge Luis Borges Quote: “The mightiest love was granted him Love that does not expect to be loved.”
Jorge Luis Borges Quote: “La derrota tiene una dignidad que la ruidosa victoria no merece.”
Jorge Luis Borges Quote: “I leave to various future times, but not to all, my garden of forking paths.”
Jorge Luis Borges Quote: “I suppose identity depends on memory. And if my memory is blotted out, then I wonder if I exist – I mean, if I am the same person. Of course, I don’t have to solve that problem. It’s up to God, if any.”
Jorge Luis Borges Quote: “Heaven and hell seem out of proportion to me: the actions of men do not deserve so much.”
Jorge Luis Borges Quote: “The taste of the apple... lies in the contact of the fruit with the palate, not in the fruit itself; in a similar way... poetry lies in the meeting of poem and reader, not in the lines of symbols printed on the pages of a book. What is essential is the aesthetic act, the thrill, the almost physical emotion that comes with each reading.”
Jorge Luis Borges Quote: “Por el amor, que nos deja ver a los otros como los ve la divinidad.”
Jorge Luis Borges Quote: “Leaving behind the babble of the plaza, I enter the Library. I feel, almost physically, the gravitation of the books, the enveloping serenity of order, time magically dessicated and preserved.”
Jorge Luis Borges Quote: “We accept reality so readily – perhaps because we sense that nothing is real.”
Jorge Luis Borges Quote: “I don’t speak of vengeance, nor of forgiving; forgetting is the only revenge and the only forgiveness.”
Jorge Luis Borges Quote: “We have shared out, like thieves, the amazing treasures of days and nights.”
Jorge Luis Borges Quote: “There is nothing in the world that is not mysterious, but the mystery is more evident in certain things than in others: in the sea, in the eyes of the elders, in the color yellow, and in music.”
Jorge Luis Borges Quote: “The certainty that everything has already been written annuls us, or renders us phantasmal.”
Jorge Luis Borges Quote: “Centuries of centuries and only in the present do things happen.”
Jorge Luis Borges Quote: “All literature, is, finally autobiographical.”
Jorge Luis Borges Quote: “It may be that universal history is the history of the different intonations given a handful of metaphors.”
Jorge Luis Borges Quote: “It also occurred to him that throughout history, humankind has told two stories: the story of a lost ship sailing the Mediterranean seas in quest of a beloved isle, and the story of a god who allows himself to be crucified on Golgotha.”
Jorge Luis Borges Quote: “For myth is at the beginning of literature, and also at its end.”
Jorge Luis Borges Quote: “Like all the men of Babylon, I have been proconsul; like all, I have been a slave. I have known omnipotence, ignominy, imprisonment.”
Jorge Luis Borges Quote: “I do not know whether music knows how to despair over music, or marble over marble, but literature is an art which knows how to prophesize the time in which it might have fallen silent, how to attack its own virtue, and how to fall in love with its own dissolution and court its own end.”
Jorge Luis Borges Quote: “Death is just infinity closing in.”
Jorge Luis Borges Quote: “He thought that the rose was to be found in its own eternity and not in his words; and that we may mention or allude to a thing, but not express it.”
Jorge Luis Borges Quote: “We are as ignorant of the meaning of the dragon as we are of the meaning of the universe.”
Jorge Luis Borges Quote: “If honor and wisdom and happiness are not for me, let them be for others. Let heaven exist, though my place be in hell. Let me be outraged and annihilated, but for one instant, in one being, let Your enormous Library be justified.”
Jorge Luis Borges Quote: “Chang Tzu tells us of a persevering man who after three laborious years mastered the art of dragon-slaying. For the rest of his days, he had not a single opportunity to test his skills.”
Jorge Luis Borges Quote: “I have been Homer; shortly, I shall be No One, like Ulysses; shortly, I shall be all men; I shall be dead.”
Jorge Luis Borges Quote: “Time, which despoils castles, enriches verses.”
Jorge Luis Borges Quote: “I think that the reader should enrich what he is reading. He should misunderstand the text; he should change it into something else.”
Jorge Luis Borges Quote: “Reality is not always probable, or likely.”
Jorge Luis Borges Quote: “To think is to ignore the differences, to generalize, to abstract.”
Jorge Luis Borges Quote: “Writing long books is a laborious and impoverishing act of foolishness: expanding in five hundred pages an idea that could be perfectly explained in a few minutes. A better procedure is to pretend that those books already exist and to offer a summary, a commentary.”
Jorge Luis Borges Quote: “I do not know which of us has written this page.”
Jorge Luis Borges Quote: “When you reach my age, you realize you couldn’t have done things very much better or much worse than you did them in the first place.”
Jorge Luis Borges Quote: “The possibilities of the art of combination are not infinite, but they tend to be frightful.”
Jorge Luis Borges Quote: “When I wake up, I wake to something worse. It’s the astonishment of being myself.”
Jorge Luis Borges Quote: “I cannot lament the loss of a love or a friendship without meditating that one loses only what one really never had.”
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