When I wake up, I wake to something worse. It’s the astonishment of being myself.
JORGE LUIS BORGESTo fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.
More Jorge Luis Borges Quotes
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Poetry remembers that it was an oral art before it was a written art.
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A writer should have another lifetime to see if he’s appreciated.
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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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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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Any life, however long and complicated it may be, actually consists of a single moment — the moment when a man knows forever more who he is.
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Truth never penetrates an unwilling mind.
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Time, which despoils castles, enriches verses.
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No one is a poet from eight to twelve and from two to six. Whoever is a poet is one always, and continually assaulted by poetry.
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What I’m really concerned about is reaching one person. And that person may be myself for all I know.
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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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We accept reality so readily – perhaps because we sense that nothing is real.
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When writers die they become books, which is, after all, not too bad an incarnation.
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Only in the present do things happen.
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Beyond my anxiety, beyond this writing, the universe waits, inexhaustible, inviting.
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In general, every country has the language it deserves.
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