Writing is nothing more than a guided dream.
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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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.
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The truth is that we live out our lives putting off all that can be put off; perhaps we all know deep down that we are immortal and that sooner or later all men will do and know all things.
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Everything touches everything.
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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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I think most people are more important than their opinions.
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The heresies we should fear are those which can be confused with orthodoxy.
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One concept corrupts and confuses the others. I am not speaking of the Evil whose limited sphere is ethics; I am speaking of the infinite.
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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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Don’t talk unless you can improve the silence.
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Every man should be capable of all ideas.
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Soccer is popular because stupidity is popular.
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We accept reality so readily – perhaps because we sense that nothing is real.
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I saw a sunset in Queretaro that seemed to reflect the color of a rose in Bengal.
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Time, which despoils castles, enriches verses.
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I cannot sleep unless I am surrounded by books.
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