A man sets himself the task of portraying the world. Shortly before he dies he discovers that this patient labyrinth of lines is a drawing of his own face.
JORGE LUIS BORGESNo one is a poet from eight to twelve and from two to six. Whoever is a poet is one always, and continually assaulted by poetry.
More Jorge Luis Borges Quotes
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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.
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Democracy is an abuse of statistics.
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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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It also occurred to him that throughout history, humankind has told two stories: the story of a lost ship sailing the Mediterranean seas in quest of a beloved isle, and the story of a god who allows himself to be crucified on Golgotha.
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Art is very mysterious. I wonder if you can really do any damage to art. I think that when we’re writing, something comes through or should come through, in spite of our theories. So theories are not really important.
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It’s a shame that we have to choose between two such second-rate countries as the USSR and the USA.
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In adultery, there is usually tenderness and self-sacrifice; in murder, courage; in profanation and blasphemy, a certain satanic splendour. Judas elected those offences unvisited by any virtues: abuse of confidence and informing.
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I think of reading a book as no less an experience than travelling or falling in love.
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The visible universe was an illusion or, more precisely, a sophism. Mirrors and fatherhood are abominable because they multiply it and extend it.
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There’s no need to build a labyrinth when the entire universe is one.
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You can’t measure time by days, the way you measure money by dollars and cents, because dollars are all the same while every day is different and maybe every hour as well.
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Don’t talk unless you can improve the silence.
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I have committed the worst of sins one can commit. I have not been happy.
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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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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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