A writer’s work is the product of laziness.
JORGE LUIS BORGESIn general, every country has the language it deserves.
More Jorge Luis Borges Quotes
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I saw all the mirrors on earth and none of them reflected me.
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He consorted with prostitutes and poets and with persons even worse.
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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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Do you want to see what human eyes have never seen? Look at the moon. Do you want to hear what ears have never heard? Listen to the bird’s cry. Do you want to touch what hands have never touched? Touch the earth. Verily I say that God is about to create the world.
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Democracy is an abuse of statistics.
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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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To arrange a library is to practice in a quiet and modest way the art of criticism.
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I never reread what I’ve written. I’m far too afraid to feel ashamed of what I’ve done.
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When you come right down to it, opinions are the most superficial things about anyone.
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The sea is an idiom I cannot decipher.
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My undertaking is not difficult, essentially. I should only have to be immortal to carry it out.
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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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Writing long books is a laborious and impoverishing act of foolishness: expanding in five hundred pages an idea that could be perfectly explained in a few minutes. A better procedure is to pretend that those books already exist and to offer a summary, a commentary.
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The flattery of posterity is not worth much more than contemporary flattery, which is worth nothing.
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Happy are the beloved and the lovers and those who can live without love.
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