When I feel I’m going to write something, then I just am quiet and I try to listen. Then something comes through. And I do what I can in order not to tamper with it.
JORGE LUIS BORGESYou can’t measure time by days, the way you measure money by dollars and cents, because dollars are all the same while every day is different and maybe every hour as well.
More Jorge Luis Borges Quotes
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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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Many of the characters are fools and they’re always playing tricks on me and treating me badly.
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I might accept immortality, if I had to do it. But I would prefer – if there is any afterlife – to know nothing whatever about Borges, about his experiences in this world.
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The man who acquires an encyclopedia does not thereby acquire every line, every paragraph, every page, and every illustration; he acquires the possibility of becoming familiar with one and another of those things.
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Time is the tiger that devours me, but I am that tiger.
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The worst labyrinth is not that intricate form that can entrap us forever, but a single and precise straight line.
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Don’t talk unless you can improve the silence.
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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 mightiest love was granted him Love that does not expect to be loved.
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Each thing implies the universe.
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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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Soccer is popular because stupidity is popular.
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Reality favors symmetry.
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To say good-bye is to deny separation; it is to say Today we play at going our own ways, but we’ll see each other tomorrow. Men invented farewells because they somehow knew themselves to be immortal, even while seeing themselves as contingent and ephemeral.
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Happy are the beloved and the lovers and those who can live without love.
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