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.
JORGE LUIS BORGESMan’s memory shapes Its own Eden within.
More Jorge Luis Borges Quotes
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The flattery of posterity is not worth much more than contemporary flattery, which is worth nothing.
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While we are asleep in this world, we are awake in another one.
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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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He consorted with prostitutes and poets and with persons even worse.
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What I’m really concerned about is reaching one person. And that person may be myself for all I know.
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In Spanish it is very difficult to make things flow, because words are over-long. But in English, you have light words.
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I am not sure of anything, I know nothing. Can you imagine that I don’t even know the date of my own death?
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Reality is not always probable, or likely.
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The heresies we should fear are those which can be confused with orthodoxy.
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Israelites, Christians and Muslims profess immortality, but the veneration they render this world proves they believe only in it, since they destine all other worlds, in infinite number, to be its reward or punishment.
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If I were asked to name the chief event in my life, I should say my father’s library.
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When I wake up, I wake to something worse. It’s the astonishment of being myself.
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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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In our dreams (writes Coleridge) images represent the sensations we think they cause; we do not feel horror because we are threatened by a sphinx; we dream of a sphinx in order to explain the horror we feel.
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To die for a religion is easier than to live it absolutely.
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