A writer should have another lifetime to see if he’s appreciated.
JORGE LUIS BORGESIn Spanish it is very difficult to make things flow, because words are over-long. But in English, you have light words.
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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Time is the substance from which I am made. Time is a river which carries me along, but I am the river; it is a tiger that devours me, but I am the tiger; it is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire.
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The Falklands thing was a fight between two bald men over a comb.
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A writer’s work is the product of laziness.
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A book is not an isolated being: it is a relationship, an axis of innumerable relationships
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He consorted with prostitutes and poets and with persons even worse.
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To arrange a library is to practice in a quiet and modest way the art of criticism.
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I thought that a man can be an enemy of other men, of the moments of other men, but not of a country: not of fireflies, words, gardens, streams of water, sunsets.
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In our dreams (writes Coleridge) images represent the sensations we think they cause; we do not feel horror because we are threatened by a sphinx; we dream of a sphinx in order to explain the horror we feel.
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Time, which despoils castles, enriches verses.
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Then I reflect that all things happen, happen to one, precisely now. Century follows century, and things happen only in the present. There are countless men in the air, on land and at sea, and all that really happens happens to me.
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Life itself is a quotation.
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The word happiness exists in every language; it is plausible the thing itself exists.
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Blindness has not been for me a total misfortune; it should not be seen in a pathetic way. It should be seen as a way of life: one of the styles of living.
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Loneliness does not worry me; life is difficult enough, putting up with yourself and with your own habits.
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