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• Two aesthetics exist: the passive aesthetic of mirrors and the active aesthetic of prisms. Guided by the former, art turns into a copy of the environment's objectivity or the individual's psychic history. Guided by the latter, art is redeemed, makes the world into its instrument, and forges, beyond spatial and temporal prisons, a personal vision.

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  Art, Mirrors, Objectivity

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• There's no need to build a labyrinth when the entire universe is one.

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  Labyrinth, Needs, Universe

  Jorge Luis Borges, Andrew Hurley (2004). “Aleph and other stories”, Penguin Classics

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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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  Beauty, Judgement, Body

  Jorge Luis Borges, Eliot Weinberger (2009). “Seven Nights”, p.93, New Directions Publishing

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• I think that the reader should enrich what he is reading. He should misunderstand the text; he should change it into something else.

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  Reading, Thinking, Should

  Norman Thomas Di Giovanni, Jorge Luis Borges, Anglo-Argentine Society (1988). “In memory of Borges”, Not Avail

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• If space is infinite, we may be at any point in space. If time is infinite, we may be at any point in time.

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  Space, May, Infinite

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• Everything touches everything.

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• I cannot sleep unless I am surrounded by books.

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  Book, Reading, Sleep

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• All writing is dreaming

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  Dream, Writing

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• Loneliness does not worry me; life is difficult enough, putting up with yourself and with your own habits.

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  Loneliness, Worry, Doe

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• To die for a religion is easier than to live it absolutely.

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  Religion, Easier, Dies

  "Deutsches Requiem" (1946) (translation by Julian Palley)

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• 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.

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  Eye, Yellow, Color

  Jorge Luis Borges, María Kodama (1985). “Aterstallaren”, E P Dutton

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• I write for myself, and perhaps for half a dozen friends. And that should be enough. And that might improve the quality of my writing. But if I were writing for thousands of people, then I would write what might please them. And as I know nothing about them, and maybe I'd have a rather low opinion of them, I don't think that would do any good to my work.

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  Writing, Thinking, People

  Jorge Luis Borges, Richard Burgin (1998). “Jorge Luis Borges: Conversations”, p.82, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• There is an hour of the afternoon when the plain is on the verge of saying something. It never says, or perhaps it says it infinitely, or perhaps we do not understand it, or we understand it and it is untranslatable as music.

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  Afternoon, Hours, Verge

  Jorge Luis Borges (1962). “Ficciones”, p.162, Grove Press

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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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  Fighting, Expression, May

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• 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.

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  Age, Done, Firsts

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• The Falklands thing was a fight between two bald men over a comb.

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  Fighting, Men, Two

  In 'Time' 14 February 1983

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• 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.

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  Time, Different, Way

  Jorge Luis Borges (2005). “Brodie's Report: Including the Prose Fiction from In Praise of Darkness”, Penguin Classics

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• The earth we inhabit is an error, an incompetent parody. Mirrors and paternity are abominable because they multiply and affirm it.

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  Errors, Mirrors, Earth

  Jorge Luis Borges (2001). “A Universal History of Iniquity”, Penguin Books

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• A . . . poet is a discoverer rather than an inventor.

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  Poet, Inventor

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• I believe books will never disappear. It is impossible for it to happen. Of all man's diverse tools, undoubtedly the most astounding are his books... If books were to disappear, history would disappear. So would man.

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  Inspirational, Motivational, Believe

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• A writer, or any man, must believe that whatever happens to him is an instrument; everything has been given for an end. This is even stronger in the case of the artist. Everything that happens, including humiliations, embarrassments, misfortunes, all has been given like clay, like material for one's art. One must accept it.

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  Art, Believe, Men

  Jorge Luis Borges, Eliot Weinberger (2009). “Seven Nights”, p.120, New Directions Publishing

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• 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.

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  Men, Ignorant, Corny

  Jorge Luis Borges, Donald A. Yates, James East Irby (1964). “Labyrinths: Selected Stories & Other Writings”, p.114, New Directions Publishing

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• The future is as irrevocable as an inflexible yesterday.

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  Future, Yesterday, Irrevocable

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• Let others pride themselves about how many pages they have written; I'd rather boast about the ones I've read.

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  Pride, Pages, Boast

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• Reality is not always probable, or likely.

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  Life, Reality, Probable Cause

  "Worldwide Laws of Life : 200 Eternal Spiritual Principles". Book by John Templeton, 1998.

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