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Memory Quotes by Jorge Luis Borges
- I cannot walk through the suburbs in the solitude of the night without thinking that the night pleases us because it suppresses idle details, just…
- A book is more than a verbal structure or series of verbal structures; it is the dialogue it establishes with its reader and the intonation…
- Days and nights passed over this despair of flesh, but one morning he awoke, looked (with calm now) at the blurred things that lay about…
- Man's memory shapes Its own Eden within
- Another school declares that all time has already transpired and that our life is only the crepuscular and no doubt falsified and mutilated memory or…
- As the end approaches, there are no longer any images from memory - there are only words.
- Of all man’s instruments, the most wondrous, no doubt, is the book. The other instruments are extensions of his body. The microscope, the telescope, are…
- The task of art is to transform what is continuously happening to us, to transform all of these things into symbols, into music, into something…
- The gods weave misfortunes for men, so that the generations to come will have something to sing about.†Mallarmé repeats, less beautifully, what Homer said;…
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