When I write, I do it urged by an intimate necessity. I don’t have in mind an exclusive public, or a public of multitudes, I don’t think in either thing. I think about expressing what I want to say. I try to do it in the simplest way possible.
JORGE LUIS BORGESDeath is just infinity closing in.
More Jorge Luis Borges Quotes
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The mind was dreaming. The world was its dream.
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What a writer wants to do is not what he does.
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He consorted with prostitutes and poets and with persons even worse.
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A writer should have another lifetime to see if he’s appreciated.
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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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We are our memory, we are that chimerical museum of shifting shapes, that pile of broken mirrors.
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How can we manage to illuminate the pathos of our lives?
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Another school declares that all time has already transpired and that our life is only the crepuscular and no doubt falsified and mutilated memory or reflection of an irrecoverable process.
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Everything touches everything.
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The things that are said in literature are always the same. What is important is the way they are said.
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I can give you my loneliness, my darkness, the hunger of my heart, I am trying to bribe you with uncertainty, with danger, with defeat.
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I had always thought of Paradise / In form and image as a library.
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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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Dictatorships foster oppression, dictatorships foster servitude, dictatorships foster cruelty; more abominable is the fact that they foster idiocy.
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A poet is a discoverer rather than an inventor.
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The possibilities of the art of combination are not infinite, but they tend to be frightful.
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A book is not an isolated being: it is a relationship, an axis of innumerable relationships
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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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The word happiness exists in every language; it is plausible the thing itself exists.
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No one is anyone, one single immortal man is all men. Like Cornelius Agrippa, I am god, I am hero, I am philosopher, I am demon and I am world, which is a tedious way of saying that I do not exist.
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Creativity is suspended between memory and forgetting.
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The flattery of posterity is not worth much more than contemporary flattery, which is worth nothing.
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You have wakened not out of sleep, but into a prior dream, and that dream lies within another, and so on, to infinity, which is the number of grains of sand. The path that you are to take is endless, and you will die before you have truly awakened.
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Reality is not always probable, or likely.
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Happy are the beloved and the lovers and those who can live without love.
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The tango is a direct expression of something that poets have often tried to state in words: the belief that a fight may be a celebration.
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