Thus my life is a flight and I lose everything and everything belongs to oblivion, or to him.
JORGE LUIS BORGES
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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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If I were asked to name the chief event in my life, I should say my father’s library.
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You may win your heart’s desire, but in the end you’re cheated of it by death.
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Personally, I am a hedonistic reader; I have never read a book merely because it was ancient. I read books for the aesthetic emotions they offer me, and I ignore the commentaries and criticism.
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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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Every novel is an ideal plane inserted into the realm of reality.
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A writer’s work is the product of laziness.
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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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Your unforgivable sins do not allow you to see my splendor.
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I had always thought of Paradise / In form and image as a library.
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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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I am not sure that I exist, actually. I am all the writers that I have read, all the people that I have met, all the women that I have loved; all the cities I have visited.
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I might accept immortality, if I had to do it. But I would prefer – if there is any afterlife – to know nothing whatever about Borges, about his experiences in this world.
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There is nothing in the world that is not mysterious, but the mystery is more evident in certain things than in others: in the sea, in the eyes of the elders, in the color yellow, and in music.
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Beyond my anxiety, beyond this writing, the universe waits, inexhaustible, inviting.
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I walk slowly, like one who comes from so far away he doesn’t expect to arrive.
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