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.
JORGE LUIS BORGESHe was very religious; he believed that he had a secret pact with God which exempted him from doing good in exchange for prayers and piety.
More Jorge Luis Borges Quotes
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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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I never reread what I’ve written. I’m far too afraid to feel ashamed of what I’ve done.
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When writers die they become books, which is, after all, not too bad an incarnation.
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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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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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Beyond my anxiety, beyond this writing, the universe waits, inexhaustible, inviting.
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The mind was dreaming. The world was its dream.
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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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When I wake up, I wake to something worse. It’s the astonishment of being myself.
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May Heaven exist, even if my place is Hell.
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Reality is partial to symmetry and slight anachronisms
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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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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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Death is just infinity closing in.
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I think of reading a book as no less an experience than travelling or falling in love.
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