Democracy is an abuse of statistics.
JORGE LUIS BORGESHe thought that the rose was to be found in its own eternity and not in his words; and that we may mention or allude to a thing, but not express it.
More Jorge Luis Borges Quotes
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I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.
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When I write, I do it urged by an intimate necessity. I don’t have in mind an exclusive public, or a public of multitudes, I don’t think in either thing. I think about expressing what I want to say. I try to do it in the simplest way possible.
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The mind was dreaming. The world was its dream.
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The original is unfaithful to the translation.
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What a writer wants to do is not what he does.
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The minotaur more than justifies the existence of the labyrinth.
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Every novel is an ideal plane inserted into the realm of reality.
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Being with you and not being with you is the only way I have to measure time.
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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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The man who acquires an encyclopedia does not thereby acquire every line, every paragraph, every page, and every illustration; he acquires the possibility of becoming familiar with one and another of those things.
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When one confesses to an act, one ceases to be an actor in it and becomes its witness, becomes a man that observes and narrates it and no longer the man that performed it.
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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.
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I have sometimes suspected that the only thing that holds no mystery is happiness, because it is its own justification.
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When you come right down to it, opinions are the most superficial things about anyone.
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Reality is partial to symmetry and slight anachronisms
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