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.
JORGE LUIS BORGESAnother school declares that all time has already transpired and that our life is only the crepuscular and no doubt falsified and mutilated memory or reflection of an irrecoverable process.
More Jorge Luis Borges Quotes
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Don’t talk unless you can improve the silence.
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Time can’t be measured in days the way money is measured in pesos and centavos, because all pesos are equal, while every day, perhaps every hour, is different.
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The dictionary is based on the hypothesis — obviously an unproven one — that languages are made up of equivalent synonyms.
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Democracy is an abuse of statistics.
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I suppose identity depends on memory. And if my memory is blotted out, then I wonder if I exist – I mean, if I am the same person. Of course, I don’t have to solve that problem. It’s up to God, if any.
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Every novel is an ideal plane inserted into the realm of reality.
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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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Personally, I am a hedonistic reader; I have never read a book merely because it was ancient. I read books for the aesthetic emotions they offer me, and I ignore the commentaries and criticism.
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The word happiness exists in every language; it is plausible the thing itself exists.
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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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All that happens to us, including our humiliations, our misfortunes, our embarrassments, all is given to us as raw material, as clay, so that we may shape our art.
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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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Time is the tiger that devours me, but I am that tiger.
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What a writer wants to do is not what he does.
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May Heaven exist, even if my place is Hell.
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