What I’m really concerned about is reaching one person. And that person may be myself for all I know.
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 things that are said in literature are always the same. What is important is the way they are said.
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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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It is clear that there is no classification of the Universe that is not arbitrary and full of conjectures. The reason for this is very simple: we do not know what kind of thing the universe is.
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I have preferred to teach my students not English literature but my love for certain authors, or, even better, certain pages, or even better than that, certain lines. One falls in love with a line, then with a page, then with an author. Well, why not? It is a beautiful process.
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I cannot walk through the suburbs in the solitude of the night without thinking that the night pleases us because it suppresses idle details, just as our memory does.
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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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Being an agnostic means all things are possible, even God, even the Holy Trinity. This world is so strange that anything may happen, or may not happen. Being an agnostic makes me live in a larger, a more fantastic kind of world, almost uncanny. It makes me more tolerant.
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He thought that the rose was to be found in its own eternity and not in his words; and that we may mention or allude to a thing, but not express it.
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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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The original is unfaithful to the translation.
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I have committed the worst of sins one can commit. I have not been happy.
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I think that the reader should enrich what he is reading. He should misunderstand the text; he should change it into something else.
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Your unforgivable sins do not allow you to see my splendor.
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What you really value is what you miss, not what you have.
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A book is not an isolated being: it is a relationship, an axis of innumerable relationships
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