A writer’s work is the product of laziness.
JORGE LUIS BORGESThe word happiness exists in every language; it is plausible the thing itself exists.
More Jorge Luis Borges Quotes
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I have always come to life after coming to books.
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What a writer wants to do is not what he does.
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The heresies we should fear are those which can be confused with orthodoxy.
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I suppose identity depends on memory. And if my memory is blotted out, then I wonder if I exist – I mean, if I am the same person. Of course, I don’t have to solve that problem. It’s up to God, if any.
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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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In general, every country has the language it deserves.
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The central fact of my life has been the existence of words and the possibility of weaving those words into poetry.
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Your unforgivable sins do not allow you to see my splendor.
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Let others pride themselves about how many pages they have written; I’d rather boast about the ones I’ve read.
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I cannot sleep unless I am surrounded by books.
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The worst labyrinth is not that intricate form that can entrap us forever, but a single and precise straight line.
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In all fiction, when a man is faced with alternatives he chooses one at the expense of others.
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We accept reality so readily – perhaps because we sense that nothing is real.
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I believe that in time we will have reached the point where we will deserve to be free of government.
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Whoever would undertake some atrocious enterprise should act as if it were already accomplished should impose upon himself a future as irrevocable as the past.
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