A writer’s work is the product of laziness.
JORGE LUIS BORGESA writer should have another lifetime to see if he’s appreciated.
More Jorge Luis Borges Quotes
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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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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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Creativity is suspended between memory and forgetting.
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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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What a writer wants to do is not what he does.
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I ask of any God, of any gods, that if they give immortality, I hope to be granted oblivion also.
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He consorted with prostitutes and poets and with persons even worse.
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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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In general, every country has the language it deserves.
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A writer should have another lifetime to see if he’s appreciated.
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When you come right down to it, opinions are the most superficial things about anyone.
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Let others pride themselves about how many pages they have written; I’d rather boast about the ones I’ve read.
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The task of art is to transform what is continuously happening to us, to transform all of these things into symbols, into music, into something which can last in man’s memory. That is our duty. If we don’t fulfill it, we feel unhappy.
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Being with you and not being with you is the only way I have to measure time.
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May Heaven exist, even if my place is Hell.
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