A writer needs loneliness, and he gets his share of it. He needs love, and he gets shared and also unshared love. He needs friendship. In fact, he needs the universe. To be a writer is, in a sense, to be a day-dreamer – to be living a kind of double life.
JORGE LUIS BORGESPoets, like the blind, can see in the dark.
More Jorge Luis Borges Quotes
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All that happens to us, including our humiliations, our misfortunes, our embarrassments, all is given to us as raw material, as clay, so that we may shape our art.
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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.
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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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If space is infinite, we may be at any point in space. If time is infinite, we may be at any point in time.
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Art is very mysterious. I wonder if you can really do any damage to art. I think that when we’re writing, something comes through or should come through, in spite of our theories. So theories are not really important.
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Reality may avoid the obligation to be interesting, but hypotheses may not.
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We are our memory, we are that chimerical museum of shifting shapes, that pile of broken mirrors.
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Each thing implies the universe.
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Doubt is one of the names of intelligence.
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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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There’s no need to build a labyrinth when the entire universe is one.
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From my weakness, I drew strength that never left me.
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A writer should have another lifetime to see if he’s appreciated.
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Poets, like the blind, can see in the dark.
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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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