I never reread what I’ve written. I’m far too afraid to feel ashamed of what I’ve done.
JORGE LUIS BORGESThe mightiest love was granted him Love that does not expect to be loved.
More Jorge Luis Borges Quotes
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The Falklands thing was a fight between two bald men over a comb.
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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 have always come to life after coming to books.
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The mind was dreaming. The world was its dream.
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I gazed at every mirror on the planet, not one gave back my reflection.
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Poetry remembers that it was an oral art before it was a written art.
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To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.
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The task of art is to transform what is continuously happening to us, to transform all of these things into symbols, into music, into something which can last in man’s memory. That is our duty. If we don’t fulfill it, we feel unhappy.
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Poets, like the blind, can see in the dark.
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The things that are said in literature are always the same. What is important is the way they are said.
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A system is nothing more than the subordination of all aspects of the universe to any one of such aspects.
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I do not write for a select minority, which means nothing to me, nor for that adulated platonic entity known as ‘The Masses’. Both abstractions, so dear to the demagogue, I disbelieve in. I write for myself and for my friends, and I write to ease the passing of time.
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I have committed the worst of sins one can commit. I have not been happy.
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Time forks perpetually toward innumerable futures.
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Soccer is popular because stupidity is popular.
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