What I’m really concerned about is reaching one person. And that person may be myself for all I know.

JORGE LUIS BORGES

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What I’m really concerned about is reaching one person. And that person may be myself for all I know.

Jorge Luis Borges

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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.

JORGE LUIS BORGES

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.
JORGE LUIS BORGES

Ease Minority
I believe books will never disappear. It is impossible for it to happen. Of all man’s diverse tools, undoubtedly the most astounding are his books… If books were to disappear, history would disappear. So would man.

JORGE LUIS BORGES

I believe books will never disappear. It is impossible for it to happen. Of all man’s diverse tools, undoubtedly the most astounding are his books… If books were to disappear, history would disappear. So would man.
JORGE LUIS BORGES
Only in the present do things happen.

JORGE LUIS BORGES

Only in the present do things happen.
JORGE LUIS BORGES
A writer should have another lifetime to see if he’s appreciated.

JORGE LUIS BORGES

A writer should have another lifetime to see if he’s appreciated.
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Appreciation
I cannot sleep unless I am surrounded by books.

JORGE LUIS BORGES

I cannot sleep unless I am surrounded by books.
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I saw all the mirrors on earth and none of them reflected me.

JORGE LUIS BORGES

I saw all the mirrors on earth and none of them reflected me.
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See
Art is endless like a river flowing, passing, yet remaining.

JORGE LUIS BORGES

Art is endless like a river flowing, passing, yet remaining.
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Creativity End
Poetry remembers that it was an oral art before it was a written art.

JORGE LUIS BORGES

Poetry remembers that it was an oral art before it was a written art.
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Oral
Time forks perpetually toward innumerable futures.

JORGE LUIS BORGES

Time forks perpetually toward innumerable futures.
JORGE LUIS BORGES
I saw a sunset in Queretaro that seemed to reflect the color of a rose in Bengal.

JORGE LUIS BORGES

I saw a sunset in Queretaro that seemed to reflect the color of a rose in Bengal.
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Color
Time is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire.

JORGE LUIS BORGES

Time is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire.
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Consume
It means much to have loved, to have been happy, to have laid my hand on the living Garden, even for a day.

JORGE LUIS BORGES

It means much to have loved, to have been happy, to have laid my hand on the living Garden, even for a day.
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Day
When writers die they become books, which is, after all, not too bad an incarnation.

JORGE LUIS BORGES

When writers die they become books, which is, after all, not too bad an incarnation.
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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.

JORGE LUIS BORGES

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 BORGES

Expression Intimate
To arrange a library is to practice in a quiet and modest way the art of criticism.

JORGE LUIS BORGES

To arrange a library is to practice in a quiet and modest way the art of criticism.
JORGE LUIS BORGES
We have a very precise image – an image at times shameless – of what we have lost, but we are ignorant of what may follow or replace it.

JORGE LUIS BORGES

We have a very precise image – an image at times shameless – of what we have lost, but we are ignorant of what may follow or replace it.
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