Perhaps the apparent favor of the universe is no more than the crocodile grin of a Doberman breathing hard and about to be hungry? Jorge Luis Borges More Quotes by Jorge Luis Borges More Quotes From Jorge Luis Borges 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 Borges writing art thinking While we are asleep in this world, we are awake in another one Jorge Luis Borges this-world inspirational world In Spanish it is very difficult to make things flow, because words are over-long. But in English, you have light words. Jorge Luis Borges difficult My undertaking is not difficult, essentially. I should only have to be immortal to carry it out. Jorge Luis Borges immortal difficult should Reality is not always probable, or likely. Jorge Luis Borges probable-cause life reality I saw a sunset in Queretaro that seemed to reflect the color of a rose in Bengal. Jorge Luis Borges sunset saws rose It's a shame that we have to choose between two such second-rate countries as the USSR and the USA. Jorge Luis Borges usa two country This web of time--the strands of which approach one another, bifurcate, intersect or ignore eachother through the centuries--embrace every posibility. Jorge Luis Borges embrace approach century 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 corny ignorant men The things that are said in literature are always the same. What is important is the way they are said. Jorge Luis Borges important literature way Poetry remembers that it was an oral art before it was a written art. Jorge Luis Borges pronunciation remember art We are our memory, we are that chimerical museum of shifting shapes, that pile of broken mirrors. Jorge Luis Borges mirrors memories museums I have tried (I am not sure how successfully) to write plain tales. I dare not say they are simple; there is not a simple page, a simple word, on earth -\-\ for all pages, all words, predicate the universe, whose most notorious attribute is its complexity. Jorge Luis Borges simple earth writing 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. Jorge Luis Borges arbitrary simple knowledge Emma dropped the paper. Her first impression was of a weak feeling in her stomach and in her knees; then of blind guilt, of unreality, of coldness, of fear; then she wished that it were already the next day. Immediately afterwards she realized that that wish was futile because the death of her father was the only thing that had happened in the world, and it would go on happening endlessly. Jorge Luis Borges next-day feelings father Every novel is an ideal plane inserted into the realm of reality. Jorge Luis Borges planes novel reality Censorship is the mother of metaphor. Jorge Luis Borges censorship metaphor mother A book is not an isolated being: it is a relationship, an axis of innumerable relationships Jorge Luis Borges isolated axes book 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 writing book ideas Any time something is written against me, I not only share the sentiment but feel I could do the job far better myself. Perhaps I should advise would-be enemies to send me their grievances beforehand, with full assurance that they will receive my every aid and support. I have even secretly longed to write, under a pen name, a merciless tirade against myself. Jorge Luis Borges writing jobs art
