The man who acquires an encyclopedia does not thereby acquire every line, every paragraph, every page, and every illustration; he acquires the possibility of becoming familiar with one and another of those things.
JORGE LUIS BORGESIn Spanish it is very difficult to make things flow, because words are over-long. But in English, you have light words.
More Jorge Luis Borges Quotes
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Time can’t be measured in days the way money is measured in pesos and centavos, because all pesos are equal, while every day, perhaps every hour, is different.
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I saw a sunset in Queretaro that seemed to reflect the color of a rose in Bengal.
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What a writer wants to do is not what he does.
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I might accept immortality, if I had to do it. But I would prefer – if there is any afterlife – to know nothing whatever about Borges, about his experiences in this world.
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When writers die they become books, which is, after all, not too bad an incarnation.
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Perhaps the apparent favor of the universe is no more than the crocodile grin of a Doberman breathing hard and about to be hungry?
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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 celebration.
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Chang Tzu tells us of a persevering man who after three laborious years mastered the art of dragon-slaying. For the rest of his days, he had not a single opportunity to test his skills.
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The future is as irrevocable as an inflexible yesterday.
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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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The original is unfaithful to the translation.
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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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Art is endless like a river flowing, passing, yet remaining.
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We have stopped believing in progress. What progress that is !
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I think most people are more important than their opinions.
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