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Jorge Luis Borges - From the Art category:
Art always opts for the individual, the concrete; art is not Platonic. (Jorge Luis Borges)
Jorge Luis Borges - From the Artists category:
A writer - and, I believe, generally all persons - must think that whatever happens to him or her is a resource. All things have been given to us for a purpose, and an artist must feel this more intensely. 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. (Jorge Luis Borges)
Jorge Luis Borges - From the Beauty category:
- The Wall and the Books, 1961...
Music, states of happiness, mythology, faces belabored by time, certain twilights and certain places try to tell us something, or have said something we should not have missed, or are about to say something; this imminence of a revelation which does not occur is, perhaps, the aesthetic phenomenon. (Jorge Luis Borges)
Jorge Luis Borges - From the Books category:
- Poem of the Gifts, 1959 (trans. by Alastair Reid)...
I had always thought of Paradise / In form and image as a library. (Jorge Luis Borges)
Jorge Luis Borges - From the Colour category:
I saw a sunset in Queretaro that seemed to reflect the colour of a rose in Bengal. (Jorge Luis Borges)
Jorge Luis Borges - From the Construction category:
Nothing is built on stone; all is built on sand, but we must build as if the sand were stone. (Jorge Luis Borges)
Jorge Luis Borges - From the Critics category:
In the critics' vocabulary, the work 'precursor' is indispensable, but it should be cleansed of all connotations of polemics or rivalry. (Jorge Luis Borges)
Jorge Luis Borges - From the Mistakes category:
In my next life I will try to commit more errors. (Jorge Luis Borges)
Jorge Luis Borges - From the Politics category:
Democracy is an abuse of statistics. (Jorge Luis Borges)
Jorge Luis Borges - From the Possibilities category:
The possibilities of the art of combination are not infinite, but they tend to be frightful. (Jorge Luis Borges)
Jorge Luis Borges - From the Quotations category:
Life itself is a quotation. (Jorge Luis Borges)
Jorge Luis Borges - From the Religion category:
-Deutsches Requiem, 1946 (trans. by Julian Palley)
To die for a religion is easier than to live it absolutely. (Jorge Luis Borges)
Jorge Luis Borges - From the Space category:
Through the years, a man peoples space with images of provinces, kingdoms, mountains, bays, ships, islands, fishes, rooms, tools, stars, horses, and people. Shortly before his death, he discovers that the patient labyrinth of lines traces the image of his own face. (Jorge Luis Borges)
Jorge Luis Borges - From the Time category:
-A New Refutation of Time, 1946 (trans. by James E. Irby)
Time is a river which sweeps me along, but I am the river; it is a tiger which destroys me, but I am the tiger; it is a fire which consumes me, but I am the fire. The world, unfortunately, is real; I, unfortunately, am Borges. (Jorge Luis Borges)
Jorge Luis Borges - From the Universe category:
-The Library of Babel, 1941 (trans. by James E. Irby)
The universe is composed of an indefinite and perhaps infinite number of hexagonal galleries. (Jorge Luis Borges)
Jorge Luis Borges - From the Writing category:
Writing is nothing more than a guided dream. (Jorge Luis Borges)
Jorge Luis Borges - From the Writing category:
The fact is that every writer creates his own precursors. His work modifies our conception of the past, as it will modify the future. (Jorge Luis Borges)
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