In general, every country has the language it deserves.
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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The things that are said in literature are always the same. What is important is the way they are said.
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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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In all fiction, when a man is faced with alternatives he chooses one at the expense of others.
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Art is endless like a river flowing, passing, yet remaining.
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Soccer is popular because stupidity is popular.
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In our dreams (writes Coleridge) images represent the sensations we think they cause; we do not feel horror because we are threatened by a sphinx; we dream of a sphinx in order to explain the horror we feel.
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Thus my life is a flight and I lose everything and everything belongs to oblivion, or to him.
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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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Every man should be capable of all ideas.
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Writing is nothing more than a guided dream.
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In Spanish it is very difficult to make things flow, because words are over-long. But in English, you have light words.
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You have wakened not out of sleep, but into a prior dream, and that dream lies within another, and so on, to infinity, which is the number of grains of sand. The path that you are to take is endless, and you will die before you have truly awakened.
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The future is as irrevocable as an inflexible yesterday.
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I believe that in time we will have reached the point where we will deserve to be free of government.
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Dictatorships foster oppression, dictatorships foster servitude, dictatorships foster cruelty; more abominable is the fact that they foster idiocy.
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