I saw a sunset in Queretaro that seemed to reflect the color of a rose in Bengal.
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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In my next life I will try to commit more errors.
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A writer’s work is the product of laziness.
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Reality is not always probable, or likely.
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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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Life itself is a quotation.
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While we are asleep in this world, we are awake in another one.
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Poetry remembers that it was an oral art before it was a written art.
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The word happiness exists in every language; it is plausible the thing itself exists.
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Democracy is an abuse of statistics.
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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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There is no point in being overwhelmed by the appalling total of human sufferring; such a total does not exist. Neither poverty nor pain is accumulable.
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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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I might accept immortality, if I had to do it. But I would prefer – if there is any afterlife – to know nothing whatever about Borges, about his experiences in this world.
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What a writer wants to do is not what he does.
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To be immortal is commonplace; except for man, all creatures are immortal, for they are ignorant of death; what is divine, terrible, incomprehensible, is to know that one is immortal.
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