Poets, like the blind, can see in the dark.
JORGE LUIS BORGES
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What a writer wants to do is not what he does.
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Poets, like the blind, can see in the dark.
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The earth we inhabit is an error, an incompetent parody. Mirrors and paternity are abominable because they multiply and affirm it.
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The possibilities of the art of combination are not infinite, but they tend to be frightful.
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The original is unfaithful to the translation.
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The flattery of posterity is not worth much more than contemporary flattery, which is worth nothing.
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In general, every country has the language it deserves.
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A man sets himself the task of portraying the world. Shortly before he dies he discovers that this patient labyrinth of lines is a drawing of his own face.
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The future has no other reality than as present hope, and the past is no more than present memory.
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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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The worst labyrinth is not that intricate form that can entrap us forever, but a single and precise straight line.
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Any life, however long and complicated it may be, actually consists of a single moment — the moment when a man knows forever more who he is.
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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 may avoid the obligation to be interesting, but hypotheses may not.
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A system is nothing more than the subordination of all aspects of the universe to any one of such aspects.
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Life itself is a quotation.
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When you reach my age, you realize you couldn’t have done things very much better or much worse than you did them in the first place.
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