If I were asked to name the chief event in my life, I should say my father’s library.
JORGE LUIS BORGESA man sets himself the task of portraying the world. Shortly before he dies he discovers that this patient labyrinth of lines is a drawing of his own face.
More Jorge Luis Borges Quotes
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The visible universe was an illusion or, more precisely, a sophism. Mirrors and fatherhood are abominable because they multiply it and extend it.
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The Falklands thing was a fight between two bald men over a comb.
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When you reach my age, you realize you couldn’t have done things very much better or much worse than you did them in the first place.
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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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Every man should be capable of all ideas.
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Writing is nothing more than a guided dream.
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My books standing there on the shelf do not know that I have written them.
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Poetry remembers that it was an oral art before it was a written art.
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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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Time, which despoils castles, enriches verses.
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There is an hour of the afternoon when the plain is on the verge of saying something. It never says, or perhaps it says it infinitely, or perhaps we do not understand it, or we understand it and it is untranslatable as music.
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What a writer wants to do is not what he does.
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The mind was dreaming. The world was its dream.
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Happy are the beloved and the lovers and those who can live without love.
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Every novel is an ideal plane inserted into the realm of reality.
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