Writing is nothing more than a guided dream.
JORGE LUIS BORGESDemocracy is an abuse of statistics.
More Jorge Luis Borges Quotes
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In my next life I will try to commit more errors.
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When you reach my age, you realize you couldn’t have done things very much better or much worse than you did them in the first place.
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To arrange a library is to practice in a quiet and modest way the art of criticism.
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I have committed the worst of sins one can commit. I have not been happy.
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Time forks perpetually toward innumerable futures.
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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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It’s a shame that we have to choose between two such second-rate countries as the USSR and the USA.
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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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The dictionary is based on the hypothesis — obviously an unproven one — that languages are made up of equivalent synonyms.
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I am not sure that I exist, actually. I am all the writers that I have read, all the people that I have met, all the women that I have loved; all the cities I have visited.
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The future is as irrevocable as an inflexible yesterday.
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Don’t talk unless you can improve the silence.
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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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The things that are said in literature are always the same. What is important is the way they are said.
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Every novel is an ideal plane inserted into the realm of reality.
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