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.

JORGE LUIS BORGES

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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.

Jorge Luis Borges

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When 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.

JORGE LUIS BORGES

When 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.
JORGE LUIS BORGES

Expression Intimate
The mightiest love was granted him Love that does not expect to be loved.

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The mightiest love was granted him Love that does not expect to be loved.
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We have stopped believing in progress. What progress that is !

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We have stopped believing in progress. What progress that is !
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The task of art is to transform what is continuously happening to us, to transform all of these things into symbols, into music, into something which can last in man’s memory. That is our duty. If we don’t fulfill it, we feel unhappy.

JORGE LUIS BORGES

The task of art is to transform what is continuously happening to us, to transform all of these things into symbols, into music, into something which can last in man’s memory. That is our duty. If we don’t fulfill it, we feel unhappy.
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Transformation
The possibilities of the art of combination are not infinite, but they tend to be frightful.

JORGE LUIS BORGES

The possibilities of the art of combination are not infinite, but they tend to be frightful.
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Infinite
Writing long books is a laborious and impoverishing act of foolishness: expanding in five hundred pages an idea that could be perfectly explained in a few minutes. A better procedure is to pretend that those books already exist and to offer a summary, a commentary.

JORGE LUIS BORGES

Writing long books is a laborious and impoverishing act of foolishness: expanding in five hundred pages an idea that could be perfectly explained in a few minutes. A better procedure is to pretend that those books already exist and to offer a summary, a commentary.
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Books Summary
For me, beauty is a physical sensation, something we feel with our whole body. It is not the result of judgement. We do not arrive at it by way of rules. We either feel beauty or we don’t.

JORGE LUIS BORGES

For me, beauty is a physical sensation, something we feel with our whole body. It is not the result of judgement. We do not arrive at it by way of rules. We either feel beauty or we don’t.
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We forget that we are all dead men conversing with dead men.

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We forget that we are all dead men conversing with dead men.
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Conversation
You can’t measure time by days, the way you measure money by dollars and cents, because dollars are all the same while every day is different and maybe every hour as well.

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You can’t measure time by days, the way you measure money by dollars and cents, because dollars are all the same while every day is different and maybe every hour as well.
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Day Measurement
I think most people are more important than their opinions.

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I think most people are more important than their opinions.
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Dictatorships foster oppression, dictatorships foster servitude, dictatorships foster cruelty; more abominable is the fact that they foster idiocy.

JORGE LUIS BORGES

Dictatorships foster oppression, dictatorships foster servitude, dictatorships foster cruelty; more abominable is the fact that they foster idiocy.
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Cruelty Dictatorship
I believe that in time we will have reached the point where we will deserve to be free of government.

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I believe that in time we will have reached the point where we will deserve to be free of government.
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Point
Nothing is built on stone; all is built on sand, but we must build as if the sand were stone.

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Nothing is built on stone; all is built on sand, but we must build as if the sand were stone.
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Stone
The fact is that poetry is not the books in the library. Poetry is the encounter of the reader with the book, the discovery of the book.

JORGE LUIS BORGES

The fact is that poetry is not the books in the library. Poetry is the encounter of the reader with the book, the discovery of the book.
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The original is unfaithful to the translation.

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The original is unfaithful to the translation.
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Original Translation
Writing is nothing more than a guided dream.

JORGE LUIS BORGES

Writing is nothing more than a guided dream.
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