We are our memory, we are that chimerical museum of shifting shapes, that pile of broken mirrors.
JORGE LUIS BORGESWhat I’m really concerned about is reaching one person. And that person may be myself for all I know.
More Jorge Luis Borges Quotes
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To arrange a library is to practice in a quiet and modest way the art of criticism.
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The fact is that poetry is not the books in the library. Poetry is the encounter of the reader with the book, the discovery of the book.
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In all fiction, when a man is faced with alternatives he chooses one at the expense of others.
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The mightiest love was granted him Love that does not expect to be loved.
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The minotaur more than justifies the existence of the labyrinth.
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I would rather like to think of God as being a kind of adventurer – even as Wells thought about him – or perhaps as something within us making for some unknown purpose.
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When you reach my age, you realize you couldn’t have done things very much better or much worse than you did them in the first place.
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There’s no need to build a labyrinth when the entire universe is one.
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It means much to have loved, to have been happy, to have laid my hand on the living Garden, even for a day.
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Writing is nothing more than a guided dream.
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Doubt is one of the names of intelligence.
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When I write, I do it urged by an intimate necessity. I don’t have in mind an exclusive public, or a public of multitudes, I don’t think in either thing. I think about expressing what I want to say. I try to do it in the simplest way possible.
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Only in the present do things happen.
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The future has no other reality than as present hope, and the past is no more than present memory.
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I have always come to life after coming to books.
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