We have a very precise image - an image at times shameless - of what we have lost, but we are ignorant of what may follow or replace it. Jorge Luis Borges More Quotes by Jorge Luis Borges More Quotes From Jorge Luis Borges Reading is an activity subsequent to writing: more resigned, more civil, more intellectual. Jorge Luis Borges readinghippiewriting 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 dobermansbreathingfavors I...have always known that my destiny was, above all, a literary destiny — that bad things and some good things would happen to me, but that, in the long run, all of it would be converted into words. Particularly the bad things, since happiness does not need to be transformed: happiness is its own end. Jorge Luis Borges destinyrunninglong 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 writingbelieveart The mightiest love was granted him Jorge Luis Borges granteddoelife Literature is not exhaustible, for the sufficient and simple reason that a single book is not. Jorge Luis Borges simpleliteraturebook The dictionary is based on the hypothesis -- obviously an unproven one -- that languages are made up of equivalent synonyms. Jorge Luis Borges languagemadewriting I have sometimes suspected that the only thing that holds no mystery is happiness, because it is its own justification. Jorge Luis Borges justificationmysterysometimes The time for your labor has been granted. Jorge Luis Borges grantedlabortime Canada is so far away it hardly exists. Jorge Luis Borges far-awaycanada Only in the present do things happen. Jorge Luis Borges mental-healththings-happenhappens The central fact of my life has been the existence of words and the possibility of weaving those words into poetry. Jorge Luis Borges weavingpossibilityfacts In general, every country has the language it deserves. Jorge Luis Borges languagedeservecountry Best thing to happen for a poet. A fine death, no? An impressive death. Jorge Luis Borges impressivepoet I have always come to life after coming to books. Jorge Luis Borges book Creativity is suspended between memory and forgetting. Jorge Luis Borges creativityforgetmemories Each thing implies the universe. Jorge Luis Borges universe To arrange a library is to practice in a quiet and modest way the art of criticism. Jorge Luis Borges practiceinspirationalart Art is endless like a river flowing, passing, yet remaining. Jorge Luis Borges passingriversart It is worth remembering that every writer begins with a naively physical notion of what art is. A book for him or her is not an expression or a series of expressions, but literally a volume, a prism with six rectangular sides made of thin sheets of papers which should include a cover, an inside cover, an epigraph in italics, a preface, nine or ten parts with some verses at the beginning, a table of contents, an ex libris with an hourglass and a Latin phrase, a brief list of errata, some blank pages, a colophon and a publication notice: objects that are known to constitute the art of writing. Jorge Luis Borges latinbookart
