My books standing there on the shelf do not know that I have written them.
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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The central fact of my life has been the existence of words and the possibility of weaving those words into poetry.
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Only in the present do things happen.
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The tango is a direct expression of something that poets have often tried to state in words: the belief that a fight may be a celebration.
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Films are even stranger, for what we are seeing are not disguised people but photographs of disguised people, and yet we believe them while the film is being shown.
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What a writer wants to do is not what he does.
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I walk slowly, like one who comes from so far away he doesn’t expect to arrive.
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I cannot sleep unless I am surrounded by books.
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Let others pride themselves about how many pages they have written; I’d rather boast about the ones I’ve read.
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Time is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire.
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I have always come to life after coming to books.
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I think most people are more important than their opinions.
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Israelites, Christians and Muslims profess immortality, but the veneration they render this world proves they believe only in it, since they destine all other worlds, in infinite number, to be its reward or punishment.
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The future is inevitable and precise, but it may not occur. God lurks in the gaps.
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I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.
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A writer needs loneliness, and he gets his share of it. He needs love, and he gets shared and also unshared love. He needs friendship. In fact, he needs the universe. To be a writer is, in a sense, to be a day-dreamer – to be living a kind of double life.
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