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 BORGESWhat a writer wants to do is not what he does.
More Jorge Luis Borges Quotes
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To be immortal is commonplace; except for man, all creatures are immortal, for they are ignorant of death; what is divine, terrible, incomprehensible, is to know that one is immortal.
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I would rather like to think of God as being a kind of adventurer – even as Wells thought about him – or perhaps as something within us making for some unknown purpose.
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I believe books will never disappear. It is impossible for it to happen. Of all man’s diverse tools, undoubtedly the most astounding are his books… If books were to disappear, history would disappear. So would man.
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My books standing there on the shelf do not know that I have written them.
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Truth never penetrates an unwilling mind.
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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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We forget that we are all dead men conversing with dead men.
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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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Reality is partial to symmetry and slight anachronisms
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The Falklands thing was a fight between two bald men over a comb.
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What you really value is what you miss, not what you have.
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Art is endless like a river flowing, passing, yet remaining.
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We have stopped believing in progress. What progress that is !
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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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The possibilities of the art of combination are not infinite, but they tend to be frightful.
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