A book is not an isolated being: it is a relationship, an axis of innumerable relationships
JORGE LUIS BORGESWe have a very precise image – an image at times shameless – of what we have lost, but we are ignorant of what may follow or replace it.
More Jorge Luis Borges Quotes
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In Spanish it is very difficult to make things flow, because words are over-long. But in English, you have light words.
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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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When one confesses to an act, one ceases to be an actor in it and becomes its witness, becomes a man that observes and narrates it and no longer the man that performed it.
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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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Thus my life is a flight and I lose everything and everything belongs to oblivion, or to him.
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A writer should have another lifetime to see if he’s appreciated.
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I gazed at every mirror on the planet, not one gave back my reflection.
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I believe that in time we will have reached the point where we will deserve to be free of government.
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Man’s memory shapes Its own Eden within.
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I do not write for a select minority, which means nothing to me, nor for that adulated platonic entity known as ‘The Masses’. Both abstractions, so dear to the demagogue, I disbelieve in. I write for myself and for my friends, and I write to ease the passing of time.
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You may win your heart’s desire, but in the end you’re cheated of it by death.
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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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While we are asleep in this world, we are awake in another one.
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There is nothing in the world that is not mysterious, but the mystery is more evident in certain things than in others: in the sea, in the eyes of the elders, in the color yellow, and in music.
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Democracy is an abuse of statistics.
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