What a writer wants to do is not what he does.
JORGE LUIS BORGESDo you want to see what human eyes have never seen? Look at the moon. Do you want to hear what ears have never heard? Listen to the bird’s cry. Do you want to touch what hands have never touched? Touch the earth. Verily I say that God is about to create the world.
More Jorge Luis Borges Quotes
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Your unforgivable sins do not allow you to see my splendor.
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I saw all the mirrors on earth and none of them reflected me.
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The central fact of my life has been the existence of words and the possibility of weaving those words into poetry.
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There is nothing in the world that is not mysterious, but the mystery is more evident in certain things than in others: in the sea, in the eyes of the elders, in the color yellow, and in music.
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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 mind was dreaming. The world was its dream.
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Being an agnostic means all things are possible, even God, even the Holy Trinity. This world is so strange that anything may happen, or may not happen. Being an agnostic makes me live in a larger, a more fantastic kind of world, almost uncanny. It makes me more tolerant.
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Nothing is built on stone; all is built on sand, but we must build as if the sand were stone.
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Creativity is suspended between memory and forgetting.
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Doubt is one of the names of intelligence.
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Time, which despoils castles, enriches verses.
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A writer’s work is the product of laziness.
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I cannot sleep unless I am surrounded by books.
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Beyond my anxiety, beyond this writing, the universe waits, inexhaustible, inviting.
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I never reread what I’ve written. I’m far too afraid to feel ashamed of what I’ve done.
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