The minotaur more than justifies the existence of the labyrinth.
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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Censorship is the mother of metaphor.
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Soccer is popular because stupidity is popular.
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When I feel I’m going to write something, then I just am quiet and I try to listen. Then something comes through. And I do what I can in order not to tamper with it.
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I think most people are more important than their opinions.
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I have always come to life after coming to books.
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The possibilities of the art of combination are not infinite, but they tend to be frightful.
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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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In general, every country has the language it deserves.
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I might accept immortality, if I had to do it. But I would prefer – if there is any afterlife – to know nothing whatever about Borges, about his experiences in this world.
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When one confesses to an act, one ceases to be an actor in it and becomes its witness, becomes a man that observes and narrates it and no longer the man that performed it.
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Heaven and hell seem out of proportion to me: the actions of men do not deserve so much.
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When I wake up, I wake to something worse. It’s the astonishment of being myself.
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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.
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To die for a religion is easier than to live it absolutely.
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Only in the present do things happen.
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