A writer’s work is the product of laziness.
JORGE LUIS BORGESTime is the tiger that devours me, but I am that tiger.
More Jorge Luis Borges Quotes
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Many of the characters are fools and they’re always playing tricks on me and treating me badly.
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Heaven and hell seem out of proportion to me: the actions of men do not deserve so much.
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I have preferred to teach my students not English literature but my love for certain authors, or, even better, certain pages, or even better than that, certain lines. One falls in love with a line, then with a page, then with an author. Well, why not? It is a beautiful process.
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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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It’s a shame that we have to choose between two such second-rate countries as the USSR and the USA.
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Time is the substance from which I am made. Time is a river which carries me along, but I am the river; it is a tiger that devours me, but I am the tiger; it is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire.
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I gazed at every mirror on the planet, not one gave back my reflection.
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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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We are our memory, we are that chimerical museum of shifting shapes, that pile of broken mirrors.
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In general, every country has the language it deserves.
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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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I believe books will never disappear. It is impossible for it to happen. Of all man’s diverse tools, undoubtedly the most astounding are his books… If books were to disappear, history would disappear. So would man.
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In adultery, there is usually tenderness and self-sacrifice; in murder, courage; in profanation and blasphemy, a certain satanic splendour. Judas elected those offences unvisited by any virtues: abuse of confidence and informing.
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Each thing implies the universe.
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Reality may avoid the obligation to be interesting, but hypotheses may not.
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