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Something Quotes by Jorge Luis Borges
- 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…
- 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…
- Music, feelings of happiness, mythology, faces worn by time, certain twilights and certain places, want to tell us something, or they told us something that…
- 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…
- What man of us has never felt, walking through the twilight or writing down a date from his past, that he has lost something infinite?
- 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 aesthetic event is something as evident, as immediate, as indefinable as love, the taste of fruit, as water. We feel poetry as we feel…
- 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;…
- I think that the reader should enrich what he is reading. He should misunderstand the text; he should change it into something else.
- When I wake up, I wake to something worse. It’s the astonishment of being myself
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