Writing is nothing more than a guided dream.
JORGE LUIS BORGESWe have stopped believing in progress. What progress that is !
More Jorge Luis Borges Quotes
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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.
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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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Every man should be capable of all ideas.
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Reality is not always probable, or likely.
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Your unforgivable sins do not allow you to see my splendor.
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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 visible universe was an illusion or, more precisely, a sophism. Mirrors and fatherhood are abominable because they multiply it and extend it.
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There’s no need to build a labyrinth when the entire universe is one.
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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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The future has no other reality than as present hope, and the past is no more than present memory.
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I am almost sure to be blotted out by death, but sometimes I think it is not impossible that I may continue to live in some other manner after my physical death . Or, as Hamlet wonders, what dreams will come when we leave this body?
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What a writer wants to do is not what he does.
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Don’t talk unless you can improve the silence.
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I ask of any God, of any gods, that if they give immortality, I hope to be granted oblivion also.
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The heresies we should fear are those which can be confused with orthodoxy.
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