Poets, like the blind, can see in the dark.
JORGE LUIS BORGESWriting is nothing more than a guided dream.
More Jorge Luis Borges Quotes
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Writing is nothing more than a guided dream.
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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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We are our memory, we are that chimerical museum of shifting shapes, that pile of broken mirrors.
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Many of the characters are fools and they’re always playing tricks on me and treating me badly.
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My undertaking is not difficult, essentially. I should only have to be immortal to carry it out.
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What will die with me when I die, what pathetic or fragile form will the world lose?
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No one is anyone, one single immortal man is all men. Like Cornelius Agrippa, I am god, I am hero, I am philosopher, I am demon and I am world, which is a tedious way of saying that I do not exist.
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When I wake up, I wake to something worse. It’s the astonishment of being myself.
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The word happiness exists in every language; it is plausible the thing itself exists.
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The visible universe was an illusion or, more precisely, a sophism. Mirrors and fatherhood are abominable because they multiply it and extend it.
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The future is as irrevocable as an inflexible yesterday.
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Censorship is the mother of metaphor.
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Reality is not always probable, or likely.
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Then I reflect that all things happen, happen to one, precisely now. Century follows century, and things happen only in the present. There are countless men in the air, on land and at sea, and all that really happens happens to me.
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Dictatorships foster oppression, dictatorships foster servitude, dictatorships foster cruelty; more abominable is the fact that they foster idiocy.
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