"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, Argentine short-story writer, essayist, poet and translator, and a key figure in Spanish language literature.
"Any life, no matter how long and complete it may be, is made up of a single moment—the moment in which a person finds out, once and for all, who they are." ~Jorge Luis Borges
"Art always opts for the individual, the concrete; art is not Platonic." ~Jorge Luis Borges
"Being conservative is a way of being skeptic." ~Jorge Luis Borges
"Dictatorships foster oppression, dictatorships foster servitude, dictatorships foster cruelty; more abominable is the fact that they foster idiocy." ~Jorge Luis Borges
"Do you want to see what human eyes have never seen?
Look at the moon.
Do you want to hear what ears have never heard?
Listen to the bird's cry.
Do you want to touch what hands have never touched?
Touch the earth.
Verily I say that God is about to create the world."
~Jorge Luis Borges
"Doubt is one of the names of intelligence." ~Jorge Luis Borges
"Every novel is an ideal plane inserted into the realm of reality." ~Jorge Luis Borges
"Heaven and hell seem out of proportion to me: the actions of men do not deserve so much." ~Jorge Louis Borges
“I can give you my loneliness, my darkness, the hunger of my heart, I am trying to bribe you with uncertainty, with danger, with defeat.” ~Jorge Luis Borges
"Let heaven exist, though my own place may be in hell. Let me be tortured and battered and annihilated, but let there be one instant, one creature, wherein thy enormous Library may find its justification." ~Jorge Luis Borges
"May Heaven exist, even if my place is Hell." ~Jorge Luis Borges
"Nothing is built on stone; all is built on sand, but we must build as if the sand were stone." ~Jorge Luis Borges
"Our nothingness differs little; it is a trivial and chance circumstance that you should be the reader of these exercises and I their author." ~Jorge Luis Borges
"Plant your own gardens and decorate your own soul, instead of waiting for someone to bring you flowers." ~Jorge Luis Borges
"Poetry remembers that it was an oral art before it was a written art." ~Jorge Luis Borges
"Reading … is an activity subsequent to writing: more resigned, more civil, more intellectual." ~Jorge Luis Borges
"There's no need to build a labyrinth when the entire universe is one." ~Jorge Luis Borges
"Time can't be measured in days the way money is measured in pesos and centavos, because all pesos are equal, while every day, perhaps every hour, is different." ~Jorge Luis Borges
"To die for a religion is easier than to live it absolutely." ~Jorge Luis Borges
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