Loneliness does not worry me; life is difficult enough, putting up with yourself and with your own habits.
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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I have committed the worst of sins one can commit. I have not been happy.
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Heaven and hell seem out of proportion to me: the actions of men do not deserve so much.
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I can give you my loneliness, my darkness, the hunger of my heart, I am trying to bribe you with uncertainty, with danger, with defeat.
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I cannot sleep unless I am surrounded by books.
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A writer should have another lifetime to see if he’s appreciated.
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There’s no need to build a labyrinth when the entire universe is one.
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Do you want to see what human eyes have never seen? Look at the moon. Do you want to hear what ears have never heard? Listen to the bird’s cry. Do you want to touch what hands have never touched? Touch the earth. Verily I say that God is about to create the world.
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Perhaps the apparent favor of the universe is no more than the crocodile grin of a Doberman breathing hard and about to be hungry?
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Life itself is a quotation.
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I have sometimes suspected that the only thing that holds no mystery is happiness, because it is its own justification.
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While we are asleep in this world, we are awake in another one.
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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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Creativity is suspended between memory and forgetting.
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He consorted with prostitutes and poets and with persons even worse.
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My undertaking is not difficult, essentially. I should only have to be immortal to carry it out.
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