The central fact of my life has been the existence of words and the possibility of weaving those words into poetry.
JORGE LUIS BORGESI never reread what I’ve written. I’m far too afraid to feel ashamed of what I’ve done.
More Jorge Luis Borges Quotes
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Life itself is a quotation.
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Time, which despoils castles, enriches verses.
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I have sometimes suspected that the only thing that holds no mystery is happiness, because it is its own justification.
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Let others pride themselves about how many pages they have written; I’d rather boast about the ones I’ve read.
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I believe books will never disappear. It is impossible for it to happen. Of all man’s diverse tools, undoubtedly the most astounding are his books… If books were to disappear, history would disappear. So would man.
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Creativity is suspended between memory and forgetting.
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I have committed the worst of sins one can commit. I have not been happy.
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Art is very mysterious. I wonder if you can really do any damage to art. I think that when we’re writing, something comes through or should come through, in spite of our theories. So theories are not really important.
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The future is inevitable and precise, but it may not occur. God lurks in the gaps.
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Any life, however long and complicated it may be, actually consists of a single moment — the moment when a man knows forever more who he is.
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In adultery, there is usually tenderness and self-sacrifice; in murder, courage; in profanation and blasphemy, a certain satanic splendour. Judas elected those offences unvisited by any virtues: abuse of confidence and informing.
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The original is unfaithful to the translation.
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When I feel I’m going to write something, then I just am quiet and I try to listen. Then something comes through. And I do what I can in order not to tamper with it.
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We accept reality so readily – perhaps because we sense that nothing is real.
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Writing long books is a laborious and impoverishing act of foolishness: expanding in five hundred pages an idea that could be perfectly explained in a few minutes. A better procedure is to pretend that those books already exist and to offer a summary, a commentary.
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