Jorge Luis Borges: 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. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote3956
Jorge Luis Borges: Don't talk unless you can improve the silence. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote3957
Jorge Luis Borges: You have wakened not out of sleep, but into a prior dream, and that dream lies within another, and so on, to infinity, which is the number of grains of sand. The path that you are to take is endless, and you will die before you have truly awakened. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote3958
Jorge Luis Borges: When writers die they become books, which is, after all, not too bad an incarnation. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote3959
Jorge Luis Borges: 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 it imposes upon his voice and the changing and durable images it leaves in his memory. A book is not an isolated being: it is a relationship, an axis of innumerable relationships. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote3960
Jorge Luis Borges: Personally, I am a hedonistic reader; I have never read a book merely because it was ancient. I read books for the aesthetic emotions they offer me, and I ignore the commentaries and criticism. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote3961
Jorge Luis Borges: Life itself is a quotation. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote3962
Jorge Luis Borges: Writing is nothing more than a guided dream. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote3963
Jorge Luis Borges: 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. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote3964