I am not sure of anything, I know nothing. Can you imagine that I don’t even know the date of my own death?
JORGE LUIS BORGESTo arrange a library is to practice in a quiet and modest way the art of criticism.
More Jorge Luis Borges Quotes
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Poetry remembers that it was an oral art before it was a written art.
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Writing long books is a laborious and impoverishing act of foolishness: expanding in five hundred pages an idea that could be perfectly explained in a few minutes. A better procedure is to pretend that those books already exist and to offer a summary, a commentary.
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Time is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire.
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Time forks perpetually toward innumerable futures.
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I think of reading a book as no less an experience than travelling or falling in love.
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Time, which despoils castles, enriches verses.
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Doubt is one of the names of intelligence.
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The future has no other reality than as present hope, and the past is no more than present memory.
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I can give you my loneliness, my darkness, the hunger of my heart, I am trying to bribe you with uncertainty, with danger, with defeat.
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A poet is a discoverer rather than an inventor.
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When writers die they become books, which is, after all, not too bad an incarnation.
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My books standing there on the shelf do not know that I have written them.
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Your unforgivable sins do not allow you to see my splendor.
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I foresee that man will resign himself each day to new abominations, and soon that only bandits and soldiers will be left.
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I 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.
JORGE LUIS BORGES