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.
JORGE LUIS BORGESI never reread what I’ve written. I’m far too afraid to feel ashamed of what I’ve done.
More Jorge Luis Borges Quotes
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We have stopped believing in progress. What progress that is !
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Perhaps the apparent favor of the universe is no more than the crocodile grin of a Doberman breathing hard and about to be hungry?
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I have preferred to teach my students not English literature but my love for certain authors, or, even better, certain pages, or even better than that, certain lines. One falls in love with a line, then with a page, then with an author. Well, why not? It is a beautiful process.
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Reality is not always probable, or likely.
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When I wake up, I wake to something worse. It’s the astonishment of being myself.
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How can we manage to illuminate the pathos of our lives?
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A writer should have another lifetime to see if he’s appreciated.
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What will die with me when I die, what pathetic or fragile form will the world lose?
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Writing long books is a laborious and impoverishing act of foolishness: expanding in five hundred pages an idea that could be perfectly explained in a few minutes. A better procedure is to pretend that those books already exist and to offer a summary, a commentary.
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The heresies we should fear are those which can be confused with orthodoxy.
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Everything touches everything.
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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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I believe that in time we will have reached the point where we will deserve to be free of government.
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What a writer wants to do is not what he does.
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The future is as irrevocable as an inflexible yesterday.
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