What a writer wants to do is not what he does.
JORGE LUIS BORGESIt is clear that there is no classification of the Universe that is not arbitrary and full of conjectures. The reason for this is very simple: we do not know what kind of thing the universe is.
More Jorge Luis Borges Quotes
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Time is the tiger that devours me, but I am that tiger.
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My books standing there on the shelf do not know that I have written them.
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Everything touches everything.
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The dictionary is based on the hypothesis — obviously an unproven one — that languages are made up of equivalent synonyms.
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When 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.
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The fact is that poetry is not the books in the library. Poetry is the encounter of the reader with the book, the discovery of the book.
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There is no point in being overwhelmed by the appalling total of human sufferring; such a total does not exist. Neither poverty nor pain is accumulable.
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The earth we inhabit is an error, an incompetent parody. Mirrors and paternity are abominable because they multiply and affirm it.
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The sea is an idiom I cannot decipher.
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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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To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.
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When I wake up, I wake to something worse. It’s the astonishment of being myself.
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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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Nothing is built on stone; all is built on sand, but we must build as if the sand were stone.
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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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