When writers die they become books, which is, after all, not too bad an incarnation.
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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I cannot walk through the suburbs in the solitude of the night without thinking that the night pleases us because it suppresses idle details, just as our memory does.
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We accept reality so readily – perhaps because we sense that nothing is real.
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Every man should be capable of all ideas.
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A writer needs loneliness, and he gets his share of it. He needs love, and he gets shared and also unshared love. He needs friendship. In fact, he needs the universe. To be a writer is, in a sense, to be a day-dreamer – to be living a kind of double life.
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Israelites, Christians and Muslims profess immortality, but the veneration they render this world proves they believe only in it, since they destine all other worlds, in infinite number, to be its reward or punishment.
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Happy are the beloved and the lovers and those who can live without love.
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The heresies we should fear are those which can be confused with orthodoxy.
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Life itself is a quotation.
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A system is nothing more than the subordination of all aspects of the universe to any one of such aspects.
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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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A writer – and, I believe, generally all persons – must think that whatever happens to him or her is a resource.
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Time is the tiger that devours me, but I am that tiger.
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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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He 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.
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Truth never penetrates an unwilling mind.
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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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Doubt is one of the names of intelligence.
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The possibilities of the art of combination are not infinite, but they tend to be frightful.
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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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My undertaking is not difficult, essentially. I should only have to be immortal to carry it out.
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The word happiness exists in every language; it is plausible the thing itself exists.
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The worst labyrinth is not that intricate form that can entrap us forever, but a single and precise straight line.
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I had always thought of Paradise / In form and image as a library.
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Each thing implies the universe.
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A man sets himself the task of portraying the world. Shortly before he dies he discovers that this patient labyrinth of lines is a drawing of his own face.
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The visible universe was an illusion or, more precisely, a sophism. Mirrors and fatherhood are abominable because they multiply it and extend it.
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