It’s a shame that we have to choose between two such second-rate countries as the USSR and the USA.
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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The man who acquires an encyclopedia does not thereby acquire every line, every paragraph, every page, and every illustration; he acquires the possibility of becoming familiar with one and another of those things.
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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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My books standing there on the shelf do not know that I have written them.
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Beyond my anxiety, beyond this writing, the universe waits, inexhaustible, inviting.
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I cannot sleep unless I am surrounded by books.
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I had always thought of Paradise / In form and image as a library.
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I gazed at every mirror on the planet, not one gave back my reflection.
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I think most people are more important than their opinions.
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The mind was dreaming. The world was its dream.
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Everything touches everything.
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Then I reflect that all things happen, happen to one, precisely now. Century follows century, and things happen only in the present. There are countless men in the air, on land and at sea, and all that really happens happens to me.
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The future has no other reality than as present hope, and the past is no more than present memory.
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So plant your own gardens and decorate your own soul, instead of waiting for someone to bring you flowers.
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I saw a sunset in Queretaro that seemed to reflect the color of a rose in Bengal.
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When 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.
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