When I feel I’m going to write something, then I just am quiet and I try to listen. Then something comes through. And I do what I can in order not to tamper with it.
JORGE LUIS BORGESPoets, like the blind, can see in the dark.
More Jorge Luis Borges Quotes
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I had always thought of Paradise / In form and image as a library.
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I think of reading a book as no less an experience than travelling or falling in love.
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Thus my life is a flight and I lose everything and everything belongs to oblivion, or to him.
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A writer should have another lifetime to see if he’s appreciated.
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I saw a sunset in Queretaro that seemed to reflect the color of a rose in Bengal.
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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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To arrange a library is to practice in a quiet and modest way the art of criticism.
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I cannot walk through the suburbs in the solitude of the night without thinking that the night pleases us because it suppresses idle details, just as our memory does.
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May Heaven exist, even if my place is Hell.
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In adultery, there is usually tenderness and self-sacrifice; in murder, courage; in profanation and blasphemy, a certain satanic splendour. Judas elected those offences unvisited by any virtues: abuse of confidence and informing.
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Israelites, Christians and Muslims profess immortality, but the veneration they render this world proves they believe only in it, since they destine all other worlds, in infinite number, to be its reward or punishment.
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I have sometimes suspected that the only thing that holds no mystery is happiness, because it is its own justification.
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When you come right down to it, opinions are the most superficial things about anyone.
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There is an hour of the afternoon when the plain is on the verge of saying something. It never says, or perhaps it says it infinitely, or perhaps we do not understand it, or we understand it and it is untranslatable as music.
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You may win your heart’s desire, but in the end you’re cheated of it by death.
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