May Heaven exist, even if my place is Hell.
JORGE LUIS BORGESI can give you my loneliness, my darkness, the hunger of my heart, I am trying to bribe you with uncertainty, with danger, with defeat.
More Jorge Luis Borges Quotes
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You have wakened not out of sleep, but into a prior dream, and that dream lies within another, and so on, to infinity, which is the number of grains of sand. The path that you are to take is endless, and you will die before you have truly awakened.
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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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Many of the characters are fools and they’re always playing tricks on me and treating me badly.
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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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The fact is that poetry is not the books in the library. Poetry is the encounter of the reader with the book, the discovery of the book.
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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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In our dreams (writes Coleridge) images represent the sensations we think they cause; we do not feel horror because we are threatened by a sphinx; we dream of a sphinx in order to explain the horror we feel.
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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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Reality is partial to symmetry and slight anachronisms
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I walk slowly, like one who comes from so far away he doesn’t expect to arrive.
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Life itself is a quotation.
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I have preferred to teach my students not English literature but my love for certain authors, or, even better, certain pages, or even better than that, certain lines. One falls in love with a line, then with a page, then with an author. Well, why not? It is a beautiful process.
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When writers die they become books, which is, after all, not too bad an incarnation.
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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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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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