I believe that in time we will have reached the point where we will deserve to be free of government.
JORGE LUIS BORGESWhen 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.
More Jorge Luis Borges Quotes
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A writer’s work is the product of laziness.
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Reality is not always probable, or likely.
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A writer – and, I believe, generally all persons – must think that whatever happens to him or her is a resource.
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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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Time forks perpetually toward innumerable futures.
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Happy are the beloved and the lovers and those who can live without love.
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I had always thought of Paradise / In form and image as a library.
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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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Perhaps the apparent favor of the universe is no more than the crocodile grin of a Doberman breathing hard and about to be hungry?
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In our dreams (writes Coleridge) images represent the sensations we think they cause; we do not feel horror because we are threatened by a sphinx; we dream of a sphinx in order to explain the horror we feel.
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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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Censorship is the mother of metaphor.
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There is an hour of the afternoon when the plain is on the verge of saying something. It never says, or perhaps it says it infinitely, or perhaps we do not understand it, or we understand it and it is untranslatable as music.
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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 flattery of posterity is not worth much more than contemporary flattery, which is worth nothing.
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