We forget that we are all dead men conversing with dead men.
JORGE LUIS BORGESArt is very mysterious. I wonder if you can really do any damage to art. I think that when we’re writing, something comes through or should come through, in spite of our theories. So theories are not really important.
More Jorge Luis Borges Quotes
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A book is not an isolated being: it is a relationship, an axis of innumerable relationships
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I think that the reader should enrich what he is reading. He should misunderstand the text; he should change it into something else.
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What you really value is what you miss, not what you have.
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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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He was very religious; he believed that he had a secret pact with God which exempted him from doing good in exchange for prayers and piety.
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Time is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire.
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A writer’s work is the product of laziness.
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Loneliness does not worry me; life is difficult enough, putting up with yourself and with your own habits.
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Your unforgivable sins do not allow you to see my splendor.
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Reality favors symmetry.
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We have stopped believing in progress. What progress that is !
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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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I walk slowly, like one who comes from so far away he doesn’t expect to arrive.
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Soccer is popular because stupidity is popular.
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Truth never penetrates an unwilling mind.
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