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.
JORGE LUIS BORGESThe future has no other reality than as present hope, and the past is no more than present memory.
More Jorge Luis Borges Quotes
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The minotaur more than justifies the existence of the labyrinth.
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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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Time is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire.
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I am almost sure to be blotted out by death, but sometimes I think it is not impossible that I may continue to live in some other manner after my physical death . Or, as Hamlet wonders, what dreams will come when we leave this body?
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When writers die they become books, which is, after all, not too bad an incarnation.
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I would rather like to think of God as being a kind of adventurer – even as Wells thought about him – or perhaps as something within us making for some unknown purpose.
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The tango is a direct expression of something that poets have often tried to state in words: the belief that a fight may be a celebration.
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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.
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To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.
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We forget that we are all dead men conversing with dead men.
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I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.
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Art 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.
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There’s no need to build a labyrinth when the entire universe is one.
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From my weakness, I drew strength that never left me.
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Reality may avoid the obligation to be interesting, but hypotheses may not.
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