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 BORGESWhen I write, I do it urged by an intimate necessity. I don’t have in mind an exclusive public, or a public of multitudes, I don’t think in either thing. I think about expressing what I want to say. I try to do it in the simplest way possible.
More Jorge Luis Borges Quotes
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Writing is nothing more than a guided dream.
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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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There’s no need to build a labyrinth when the entire universe is one.
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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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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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A poet is a discoverer rather than an inventor.
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I gazed at every mirror on the planet, not one gave back my reflection.
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Israelites, Christians and Muslims profess immortality, but the veneration they render this world proves they believe only in it, since they destine all other worlds, in infinite number, to be its reward or punishment.
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What a writer wants to do is not what he does.
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Beyond my anxiety, beyond this writing, the universe waits, inexhaustible, inviting.
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I would rather like to think of God as being a kind of adventurer – even as Wells thought about him – or perhaps as something within us making for some unknown purpose.
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The future is as irrevocable as an inflexible yesterday.
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I saw all the mirrors on earth and none of them reflected me.
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In all fiction, when a man is faced with alternatives he chooses one at the expense of others.
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It also occurred to him that throughout history, humankind has told two stories: the story of a lost ship sailing the Mediterranean seas in quest of a beloved isle, and the story of a god who allows himself to be crucified on Golgotha.
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