Jorge Luis Borges Quote Explained: Art always opts for the individual, the concrete; art is not Platonic.

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As the end approaches, there are no longer any images from memory – there are only words.

Writer

· Argentina

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You may win your heart’s desire, but in the end you’re cheated of it by death.

- Jorge Luis Borges

Writer

· Argentina

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When I wake up, I wake to something worse. It’s the astonishment of being myself

- Jorge Luis Borges

Writer

· Argentina

Wake Up

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Reality may avoid the obligation to be interesting, but … hypotheses may not.

- Jorge Luis Borges

Writer

· Argentina

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To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.

- Jorge Luis Borges

Writer

· Argentina

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Reading is an activity subsequent to writing: more resigned, more civil, more intellectual.

- Jorge Luis Borges

Writer

· Argentina

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Doubt is one of the names of intelligence.

- Jorge Luis Borges

Writer

· Argentina

Doubt

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There’s no need to build a labyrinth when the entire universe is one.

- Jorge Luis Borges

Writer

· Argentina

Art always opts for the individual, the concrete; art is not Platonic.

Art always opts for the individual, the concrete; art is not Platonic.

As the end approaches, there are no longer any images from memory – there are only words.

You may win your heart’s desire, but in the end you’re cheated of it by death.

When I wake up, I wake to something worse. It’s the astonishment of being myself

Reality may avoid the obligation to be interesting, but … hypotheses may not.

To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.

Reading is an activity subsequent to writing: more resigned, more civil, more intellectual.

Doubt is one of the names of intelligence.

There’s no need to build a labyrinth when the entire universe is one.

I’ve taught, and the first thing I did when I taught art, was not to teach art. Explain

Appreciation of art is a moral erection, otherwise mere dilettantism. Explain

Lying is the only art form that the public sanctions and instinctively prefers to reality. Explain

Film will only became an art when its materials are as inexpensive as pencil and paper.

Art produces ugly things which frequently become beautiful with time.

Look out! Be on your guard, because alone of all the arts, music moves all around you.

Art is a language, an instrument of knowledge, an instrument of communication.

The real function of art is to change mental patterns … making new thought possible.

Art always opts for the individual, the concrete; art is not Platonic.

Art always opts for the individual, the concrete; art is not Platonic.

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