To arrange a library is to practice in a quiet and modest way the art of criticism.
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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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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When you come right down to it, opinions are the most superficial things about anyone.
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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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If space is infinite, we may be at any point in space. If time is infinite, we may be at any point in time.
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I can give you my loneliness, my darkness, the hunger of my heart, I am trying to bribe you with uncertainty, with danger, with defeat.
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While we are asleep in this world, we are awake in another one.
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So plant your own gardens and decorate your own soul, instead of waiting for someone to bring you flowers.
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We have a very precise image – an image at times shameless – of what we have lost, but we are ignorant of what may follow or replace it.
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Everything touches everything.
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I saw a sunset in Queretaro that seemed to reflect the color of a rose in Bengal.
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Life itself is a quotation.
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The Falklands thing was a fight between two bald men over a comb.
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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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The sea is an idiom I cannot decipher.
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