Reality is not always probable, or likely.
JORGE LUIS BORGESIn general, every country has the language it deserves.
More Jorge Luis Borges Quotes
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My books standing there on the shelf do not know that I have written them.
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Every novel is an ideal plane inserted into the realm of reality.
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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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A book is not an isolated being: it is a relationship, an axis of innumerable relationships
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The truth is that we live out our lives putting off all that can be put off; perhaps we all know deep down that we are immortal and that sooner or later all men will do and know all things.
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To say good-bye is to deny separation; it is to say Today we play at going our own ways, but we’ll see each other tomorrow. Men invented farewells because they somehow knew themselves to be immortal, even while seeing themselves as contingent and ephemeral.
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Art is very mysterious. I wonder if you can really do any damage to art. I think that when we’re writing, something comes through or should come through, in spite of our theories. So theories are not really important.
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I saw all the mirrors on earth and none of them reflected me.
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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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I have always come to life after coming to books.
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I am not sure that I exist, actually. I am all the writers that I have read, all the people that I have met, all the women that I have loved; all the cities I have visited.
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Personally, I am a hedonistic reader; I have never read a book merely because it was ancient. I read books for the aesthetic emotions they offer me, and I ignore the commentaries and criticism.
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He consorted with prostitutes and poets and with persons even worse.
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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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My undertaking is not difficult, essentially. I should only have to be immortal to carry it out.
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