You can't measure time by days, the way you measure money by dollars and cents, because dollars are all the same while every day is different and maybe every hour as well. 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 reading hippie writing 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 dobermans breathing favors 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 destiny running long 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 writing believe art The mightiest love was granted him Jorge Luis Borges granted doe life Literature is not exhaustible, for the sufficient and simple reason that a single book is not. Jorge Luis Borges simple literature book The dictionary is based on the hypothesis -- obviously an unproven one -- that languages are made up of equivalent synonyms. Jorge Luis Borges language made writing I have sometimes suspected that the only thing that holds no mystery is happiness, because it is its own justification. Jorge Luis Borges justification mystery sometimes The time for your labor has been granted. Jorge Luis Borges granted labor time Canada is so far away it hardly exists. Jorge Luis Borges far-away canada Only in the present do things happen. Jorge Luis Borges mental-health things-happen happens The central fact of my life has been the existence of words and the possibility of weaving those words into poetry. Jorge Luis Borges weaving possibility facts In general, every country has the language it deserves. Jorge Luis Borges language deserve country Best thing to happen for a poet. A fine death, no? An impressive death. Jorge Luis Borges impressive poet I have always come to life after coming to books. Jorge Luis Borges book Creativity is suspended between memory and forgetting. Jorge Luis Borges creativity forget memories 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 practice inspirational art Art is endless like a river flowing, passing, yet remaining. Jorge Luis Borges passing rivers art 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 latin book art
