No one is a poet from eight to twelve and from two to six. Whoever is a poet is one always, and continually assaulted by poetry.
JORGE LUIS BORGESWhat a writer wants to do is not what he does.
More Jorge Luis Borges Quotes
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The central fact of my life has been the existence of words and the possibility of weaving those words into poetry.
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Nothing is built on stone; all is built on sand, but we must build as if the sand were stone.
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He was very religious; he believed that he had a secret pact with God which exempted him from doing good in exchange for prayers and piety.
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Loneliness does not worry me; life is difficult enough, putting up with yourself and with your own habits.
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You can’t measure time by days, the way you measure money by dollars and cents, because dollars are all the same while every day is different and maybe every hour as well.
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What I’m really concerned about is reaching one person. And that person may be myself for all I know.
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Doubt is one of the names of intelligence.
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Being an agnostic means all things are possible, even God, even the Holy Trinity. This world is so strange that anything may happen, or may not happen. Being an agnostic makes me live in a larger, a more fantastic kind of world, almost uncanny. It makes me more tolerant.
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The future is as irrevocable as an inflexible yesterday.
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Democracy is an abuse of statistics.
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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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I saw all the mirrors on earth and none of them reflected me.
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Reality may avoid the obligation to be interesting, but hypotheses may not.
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A writer’s work is the product of laziness.
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I never reread what I’ve written. I’m far too afraid to feel ashamed of what I’ve done.
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