What a writer wants to do is not what he does.
JORGE LUIS BORGESI 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.
More Jorge Luis Borges Quotes
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Democracy is an abuse of statistics.
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Only in the present do things happen.
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Loneliness does not worry me; life is difficult enough, putting up with yourself and with your own habits.
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From my weakness, I drew strength that never left me.
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The central fact of my life has been the existence of words and the possibility of weaving those words into poetry.
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Every novel is an ideal plane inserted into the realm of reality.
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The sea is an idiom I cannot decipher.
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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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The word happiness exists in every language; it is plausible the thing itself exists.
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Art is endless like a river flowing, passing, yet remaining.
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Happy are the beloved and the lovers and those who can live without love.
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A writer should have another lifetime to see if he’s appreciated.
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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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I had always thought of Paradise / In form and image as a library.
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I foresee that man will resign himself each day to new abominations, and soon that only bandits and soldiers will be left.
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