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.
JORGE LUIS BORGESI 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.
More Jorge Luis Borges Quotes
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A book is not an isolated being: it is a relationship, an axis of innumerable relationships
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Time is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire.
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The word happiness exists in every language; it is plausible the thing itself exists.
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I thought that a man can be an enemy of other men, of the moments of other men, but not of a country: not of fireflies, words, gardens, streams of water, sunsets.
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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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For me, beauty is a physical sensation, something we feel with our whole body. It is not the result of judgement. We do not arrive at it by way of rules. We either feel beauty or we don’t.
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When you reach my age, you realize you couldn’t have done things very much better or much worse than you did them in the first place.
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Every novel is an ideal plane inserted into the realm of reality.
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Life itself is a quotation.
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When writers die they become books, which is, after all, not too bad an incarnation.
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The worst labyrinth is not that intricate form that can entrap us forever, but a single and precise straight line.
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The future is inevitable and precise, but it may not occur. God lurks in the gaps.
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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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The heresies we should fear are those which can be confused with orthodoxy.
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No 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.
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