When I feel I’m going to write something, then I just am quiet and I try to listen. Then something comes through. And I do what I can in order not to tamper with it.
JORGE LUIS BORGESIf space is infinite, we may be at any point in space. If time is infinite, we may be at any point in time.
More Jorge Luis Borges Quotes
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Writing is nothing more than a guided dream.
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We forget that we are all dead men conversing with dead men.
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Reality is not always probable, or likely.
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I had always thought of Paradise / In form and image as a library.
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If I were asked to name the chief event in my life, I should say my father’s library.
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I cannot walk through the suburbs in the solitude of the night without thinking that the night pleases us because it suppresses idle details, just as our memory does.
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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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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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Censorship is the mother of metaphor.
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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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Many of the characters are fools and they’re always playing tricks on me and treating me badly.
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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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The original is unfaithful to the translation.
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What a writer wants to do is not what he does.
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The mind was dreaming. The world was its dream.
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