I saw a sunset in Queretaro that seemed to reflect the color of a rose in Bengal.
JORGE LUIS BORGESA writer’s work is the product of laziness.
More Jorge Luis Borges Quotes
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When writers die they become books, which is, after all, not too bad an incarnation.
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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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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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Each thing implies the universe.
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I believe books will never disappear. It is impossible for it to happen. Of all man’s diverse tools, undoubtedly the most astounding are his books… If books were to disappear, history would disappear. So would man.
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We have a very precise image – an image at times shameless – of what we have lost, but we are ignorant of what may follow or replace it.
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A book is not an isolated being: it is a relationship, an axis of innumerable relationships
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I never reread what I’ve written. I’m far too afraid to feel ashamed of what I’ve done.
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The visible universe was an illusion or, more precisely, a sophism. Mirrors and fatherhood are abominable because they multiply it and extend it.
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Do you want to see what human eyes have never seen? Look at the moon. Do you want to hear what ears have never heard? Listen to the bird’s cry. Do you want to touch what hands have never touched? Touch the earth. Verily I say that God is about to create the world.
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Life itself is a quotation.
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There’s no need to build a labyrinth when the entire universe is one.
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In all fiction, when a man is faced with alternatives he chooses one at the expense of others.
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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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Any life, however long and complicated it may be, actually consists of a single moment — the moment when a man knows forever more who he is.
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