The man who acquires an encyclopedia does not thereby acquire every line, every paragraph, every page, and every illustration; he acquires the possibility of becoming familiar with one and another of those things.
JORGE LUIS BORGESWhen one confesses to an act, one ceases to be an actor in it and becomes its witness, becomes a man that observes and narrates it and no longer the man that performed it.
More Jorge Luis Borges Quotes
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The heresies we should fear are those which can be confused with orthodoxy.
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You have wakened not out of sleep, but into a prior dream, and that dream lies within another, and so on, to infinity, which is the number of grains of sand. The path that you are to take is endless, and you will die before you have truly awakened.
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The future is as irrevocable as an inflexible yesterday.
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A writer – and, I believe, generally all persons – must think that whatever happens to him or her is a resource.
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Truth never penetrates an unwilling mind.
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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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The mightiest love was granted him Love that does not expect to be loved.
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So plant your own gardens and decorate your own soul, instead of waiting for someone to bring you flowers.
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In general, every country has the language it deserves.
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Poetry remembers that it was an oral art before it was a written art.
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Each thing implies the universe.
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Writing long books is a laborious and impoverishing act of foolishness: expanding in five hundred pages an idea that could be perfectly explained in a few minutes. A better procedure is to pretend that those books already exist and to offer a summary, a commentary.
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Creativity is suspended between memory and forgetting.
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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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No one is anyone, one single immortal man is all men. Like Cornelius Agrippa, I am god, I am hero, I am philosopher, I am demon and I am world, which is a tedious way of saying that I do not exist.
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